Tab. 5527. 



PHALiENOPSIS Sumatrana. 



Sumatra Phalanopsis. 



Nat. Ord. Okchide.e. — Gynandria Moxandeia, 

 Gtn. Char. {Vide supra, Tab. 5351.) 



Phal.enopsis Schilleriana ; foliis acntis, pedunculo plurifloro, sepalis oblongis 

 acutis extus non carinatis, petalis cuneato-ligulatis acutis, labello brevi un- 

 guiculato tripartito, laciniis lateral ibus ligulatis, apice retuso-denticulatis, 

 lvtrorsum falcatis, extus oblique carinatis, lacinia media ligulato-pandurata 

 ibrnicata caniosA, basi implicita, per lineam mediam carinata, autice dense 

 pilosa, ligulis forcipatis duabus deinceps inter partitiones laterales, columna 

 ^emitereti pandurata, androclinio cucullato denticulate lichb. 



Phal^nopsis Sumatrana. Korthals, Bchb.jil. in Otto, Hamb. Gartenzeit. I860, 

 115, alias P. zebrina, Hort. Bog. in Annates d'Hortic. et de Bot. ou Flore 

 des Jardins du Royaume des Pays-Bas, IS60, fasc. 10, cum ic 



P. zebrina in Plant* Nov. in Hort. Bog. Culta, auct. T.E. Teijsman et Binnen- 

 dijk, 1863, 15. 



Ail interesting account — for which we are indebted to Pro- 

 fessor Reichenbach— of this remarkable Phalsenopsis appeared in 

 the ' Gardeners' Chronicle/ the first week of last June. From 

 this we learn that the species is a native of the province of Pa- 

 lembang, in Sumatra, where it was originally discovered by Kort- 

 hals, more than a quarter of a century ago. By him it would seem 

 to have been sent to the Botanic Garden at Leyden, where it 

 flowered about the year 1856, and where an imperfect figure- 

 subsequently published in the ' Annales ' as P. zebrma—wzs pre- 

 pared. But although long since introduced to Continental collec- 

 tions, the species was never seen in this country before the spring 

 of the present year, when it flowered beautifully in the collec- 

 tion of Mr. Day, who exhibited at South Kensington the speci- 

 men from which Mr. Fitch's drawing was taken. 



Professor Reichenbach remarks that the anthcr-\\& is fringed 

 after the manner of Trkhopilia, and that the apex of the hp is 



august 1st, 1865. 



