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Tas. 5212. 
PHALAENOPSIS rosea. 
Rose-coloured Phalenopsis. 
Nat. Ord. Orcutpr®%.—GyNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4297.) 
PuHaL#£noprsts rosea ; foliis oblongis coriaceis acutis apice recurvis, scapo cernuo 
ramoso tortuoso subclavato, floribus subcarnosis, sepalis ovatis, petalis ova- 
libus paulo latioribus, labello ascendente tripartito, laciniis lateralibus lineari- 
spathulatis lunatis, intermedia crista lunata rotundata depressa emarginata 
(cirrhis nullis). Lend. 
Puatenopsis rosea. Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1848, p. 671 (with woodcut of 
flower), and in Paxt. Fl. Gard. v. 2. t. 72. 
SravuRoGLortis equestris. Schauer, in Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. v. 19. Suppl. 
— p. 432. 
PHALENopsIs equestris. Reich. Fil. in Linnea, 1849, p. 864. 
‘The name Phalenopsis, from our long familiarity with the well- 
known species P. amabilis (see our Tab, 4297), and its close 
affinity with P. grandiflora (Lab. 5184), which we have lately 
ventured to consider scarcely different from amadilis, leads the 
mind to flowers of large size and of the purest whiteness. To 
those who thus form their ideas the present species will prove 
a disappointment. The flowers are small, the whites are not 
clear white, and the rose tints are not bright-rose. The organic 
structure of the flower is however the same, wanting indeed the 
cirrhi to the lip, which is so remarkable in them; and the foliage 
bears a great resemblance to that of P. amadilis. It was im- 
ported from Manilla into England, by Messrs. Veitch and Sons, of 
the Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries, through their zealous collector, 
Mr. Thomas Lobb, who describes the spike of flowers from twelve 
to eighteen inches long. It does not appear to attain such a size 
with us. We are indebted to Mr. R. Bullen, gardener to John 
Butler, Esq., of Woolwich, for the opportunity of figuring this 
still rare species from that gentleman’s collection. 
Dzscr. From a very short sfem or caudex, attached to its 
place of growth by a few stout vermicular fleshy fibres, there 
arise a few (three to four) oblong, thick coriaceo-carnose Jeaves, 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1860. 
