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[Plate 72.] 
THE PINK BUTTEEFLY PLANT. 
(PHAL.^XOPSIS ROSEA.) 
A most heautiful pinhjlQwered Epiphjte, from Manilla, belonging to Orchids 
AjJCCtfic €^^XHtttt. 
THE PINK BUTTERFLY PLANT. Leaves oblon-, 
leathery, sharp and recurved at the point (from eight to 
ten inches long). Flowers twelve or thirteen, about an 
inch in diameter, at the end of a stiff, ascending, droop- 
ing, branched, lateral peduncle (eighteen inches long). 
Sepals spreading, oblong-lanceolate, rather acute, equsi, 
white slightly tinged with pink. Lip ascending, deep 
violet, with the lateral segments linear-spathulate, oblique, 
incurved, the middle one ovate- acuminate, slightly lozenge- 
shaped ; crest thin, concave, lunate, rounded. 
PHAL^NOPSIS £OS£A ; foliis oblongis corlaceis acutis 
apice recurvis, scapo cemuo ranioso tortuoso subclavato, 
floribus subcarnosis, sepalis ovatis, petalis ovalibus paulo 
latioribus, labello ascendente tripartito laciniis lateralibus 
lineari 
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5 rosea: Lindley in Gavdeii^rh Chronicle, 1848, p. 671, with a woodcut; alias PhaL equestris : Rdchmhach 
Zdnncea, 1849, p. 865 ; alias Stauroglottia equestris : Schaucr in Act. Acad. Nat. cur., xix sunnl 4.^9 
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^His cliarming plant has found little favour among growers of Orchids, from their not knowin 
how to manage it. For tlie most part it appears in collections as a small tuft of broad inelegant 
leaves, throwing up now and then a puny scape of pallid flowers, in which there is scarcely an 
clement of beauty. But the accompanying figure, which is a faitliful representation of the plant 
as it is grown in Mr. Eucker's collection^ shows that when the plant becomes old and healthy, and 
