Tas. 5184, 
PHALENOPSIS GranpIrLora. 
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Large-flowered Indian Butterfly-plant. 
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Nat. Ord. OrcHIpE®.—GYNANDRIA MonoGynta. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4297.) 
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PHALENOPs!s grandiflora ; foliis longis, sepalis lateralibus internum phyllum su- 
premum non tegentibus apice mucronatis, labello phyllis lateralibus externis 
multo breviori, lobo medio lineari-hastato, lobis lateralibus oblique cuneatis 
obtusangulis, cirrhis flavis. Lind/. 
PHALENOPsIS grandiflora. Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1848, p. 39, with a woodcut 
of the flower. Walp. Ann. Bot. v. 3. p. 561. 
yer? 
Dr. Lindley first distinguished this as a species from the well- 
ee known and universal favourite, Phalenopsis amabilis, in the 
oe ‘Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ above quoted, and we cannot do better 
Le than transcribe his remarks thereupon :—‘“ A small plant of this 
noble epiphyte was exhibited on the 7th of September, last year 
- (1847), before the Horticultural Society, by J. H. Schroder, Esq., 
‘of Stratford Green, when it received the silver Banksian medal. 
it was not supposed at that time to be a distinct species from 
the Phalenopsis amabilis, but was regarded merely as a fine 
variety. Upon a comparison of it with the Manilla species, it 
proves however to possess so many points of difference, that no 
doubt can be entertained of its being really distinct. Its flowers 
are four times as large, the petals do not overlap the back sepal, 
nor have they the small point which is invariably present in Pha- 
lenopsis amabilis ; the lip is very narrow, much shorter than the 
lanceolate sepals, and its chief lateral lobes are somewhat wedge- 
shaped, with the angles rounded off. The distribution of colour, 
too, is different; there is a large stain of deep yellow on the 
front edge of the chief lateral lobes of the lip, and the cirrhi are 
yellow, not white.” 
Such are the distinguishing characters given by the botanist 
who has made the Orchideous plants almost the study of his life, 
JUNE Ist, 1860. 
