Tab. 7885. 

 PHAL^NOPSIS Kunstleri. 



Native of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Nat. Old. Orchide.e. — Tribe Vande^:. 

 Genus Phal.enopsis, Bl.\ (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 573.) 



PiiALiENorsis (Stauroglottis) Kunstleri; subacaulis, foliis 1-3 sessilibus oblongis 

 oboyato-oblongisve apice acutis v. rotundatis et mucronatis 3-5 poll, longis 

 basi angustatis Isete viridibus, pedunculo 4-6 poll, longo decurvo v. pendnlo 

 crassitie pennse corvinae vaginis 1-2 brevibus crassis obtusis instructo, 

 racemo terminali 3-6-floro rachi augulatirn flexuoso, bracteis minutis 

 ovatis obtusis, pedicellis cum ovariis 1-1^ pollicaribus ascendentibus 

 flexuosis, floribus lg poll, latis, sepalis petalisque consimilibua lineari- 

 oblongis oblongo-obovatisve apice rotundatis supra convexis lateribus 

 recurvis rufo-brunneis apice et basi late aureis, labelli parvi lobis laterali- 

 bus incurvis auriculseformibus albis sanguineo striatis, terminali ovato- 

 rotnndato obtuso medio alte carinato basi appendice brevi furcata 

 instructo, disco inter lobos laterales crasse bicarinato, columna brevi 

 superne dilatata anthera biloba multo latiore. 



F. Kunstleri, Hook.Jil. in Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. vi. p. 30 ; et in Ann. Roy. Hot Gard. 

 Calcutta, vol. v. p. 38, t. 58. 



I accept Mr. Rolfe's determination of the plant here 

 figured being the Phalsenopsis Kunstleri described by me 

 in 1895, from dried flowers of a specimen collected in 

 Perak by Dr. Kunstler, and a drawing of the whole plant 

 made by a native artist in the Royal Botanic Gardens of 

 Calcutta. A comparison of that drawing, subsequently 

 published in " The Annals of the Royal Gardens," with 

 Miss Smith's here produced, shows that, if Mr. Rolfe's 

 identification is correct, the species must be a variable 

 one, for the Calcutta drawing represents the roots as 

 much more slender and terete, the leaves lanceolate, acute, 

 without a terminal mucro, and of a very pale green, 

 suffused with yellow towards the base, a two-flowered 

 raceme, and obovate, nearly flat sepals and petals. 



I am indebted to Sir Trevor Lawrence for the specimen 

 here figured, which he informs me he procured in 1899 

 from Mr. Curtis, F.L.S., Superintendent of Gardens and 

 Forests in Penang, without any definite locality. It 

 flowered in a stove at Burford Lodge in April, 1902. 



March 1st, 1903. 



