Phalenopsis.] otemt, omOomipEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 31 
lin. diam. ; sepals and petals dull yellow green mottled closely with dull red for 
the basal half; lip small, white, side lobes erect streaked with red, midlobe red 
purple between the ridges ; forked appendage small, with a 2-lobed callus behind 
it; column about half the length of the lip; pollinia globose, strap short, cuneate, 
gland quadrate.—Described from dried flowers and a drawing of the whole plant in 
Hort. Caleutt. 
** Lateral sepals inserted by a broad base on the elongate foot of the 
column. 
8. P. Esmeralda, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1874, ii. 582; lateral 
sepals orbieular-ovate, petals broadly obovate, claw of lip long geniculate 
with two narrow recurved auricles, side lobes broadly faleately obovate, 
midlobe oblong. Rev. Hortic. 1877, t. 107; Warner Orchid. Alb. vii. t. 21. 
Floral Mag. N. S. t. 358; Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1886, ii. 976; Orchidoph. 
1881, t. 0. P. antennifera, ReicAb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1878, 398; 1882, 520; 
Rolfe l. c. 1886, ii. 276. 
Burma, Hort. Low.—DrtsTRIB. Cochin China. 
Leaves 4—6 in. Scape 1-2 ft., simple or branched, slender; rachis elongate; 
flowers 1 in. diam., amethystine ; side lobes of lip erect, appressed, red-purple ; 
disk with a 2-awned callus in front of the auricles, and a raised thickened fleshy ridge 
from the base of the side lobes to the tip of the midlobe. 
9. P. Parishii, Reich. f. in Gard. Chron. 1865, 410; 1871, 802; Xen. 
Orchid. i. 144, t. 156, £. 1. in Saunders’ Refug. Bot. t. 85; flowers small, 
lateral sepals subrotund, lip short sessile, side lobes small falcate, midlobe 
much broader shortly stipitate reniformly cordate. Bot. Mag. t. 5815; 
Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1886, ii. 276. 
Eastern Himauaya, Lobb, Mann. CACHAR, Keenan. TENASSERIM, Lobb. 
. Leaves 3-5 in., linear or obovate-oblong. Scape 3-4 in., 6—8-fld.; flowers 
1 ìn. diam. ; sepals and obovate petals cream-cold. ; lip mobile, purple-brown ; disk 
With a narrow 4-awned appendage at the base overlapping a much broader ciliate 
lamina ; rostellum 3-partite.—The figure in Saunders’ Refug. is of var. Lobbii, R. f., 
Which has a white lip with two chestnut bands. 
SPECIES OF DOUBTFUL POSITION. 
P. Fusoata, Reichb. Jf. in Gard. Chron. 1874, ii. 6; “allied to P. Cornu-cervi, 
Toots short, leaves very broad oblong obtuse acute, flowers medium-sized, sepals 
oblong obtusely acute, petals cuneately oblong obtuse, lip 3-partite, side segments 
ligulate retuse one toothed on each side, umbonate on the middle of the lower side, 
mid-segment oblong acute keeled in the middle, base with a 2-toothed callus, and 
with an aristate ligula on each side behind it, column not angled (ewangu/ata) at the 
ase."— Malayan Peninsula, Hort. Bull.—Characters from Reichenbach 1, c., who 
does not describe the inflorescence, or whether the column has a foot or not. 
54. DORITIS, Lindi. 
. Characters of Phalenopsis, and having the same 2-awned plate on the 
Isk of the lip, but the column is narrowly winged, its foot longer forming 
a Spur-like mentum with the side lobes of the lip.—Species 5, Indian and 
alàyan. 
D. pulcherrima, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7348 (Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 178, Reichb. f. 
Zen, Orchid. ii. 7), a Siam species, with flowers nearly 1 in. diam. in a panicle 2-3 ft. 
ong, probably occurs in the Straits region. 
l. D. tænialis, Benth. in Gen. Plant. iii. 574; scape short few-fld., 
mentum acute, side lobes of lip very narrow spathulate reflexed on the 
sky tips of the forked appendage of the lip hooked. rides tweniale, 
