HORTUS VE1TCHII 



PHAL^NOPSIS AMABILIS, Blume. 



Syiis. P. grandiflora, Lindl. 



Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1848, p. 39, with woodcut; Bot. Mag. t. 5184; Veitchs' Man. 

 Orch. PI. pt. vii. p. 23, figs. ; Kolfe in Gard. Chron. 1886, vol. xxvi. p. 168. 



Introduced into British gardens by Thomas Lobb, who sent plants from 

 Java to Exeter in 1846, which flowered for the first time in this country 

 in September of the following year. All collectors in that region since 

 Lobb mention Phalaenopsis amabilis, and agree in reporting it as growing 

 near the sea-shore, sometimes high up on the trees and sometimes lower 

 down. Burbidge found it in Labuan and North Borneo, Curtis detected it 

 in North Celebes, and Burke met with a small-flowered variety in South- 

 West New Guinea. 



The species was known as early as 1750, in which, year Kumphius 

 figured it in his Herbarium Amboinense. 



PHAL^ENOPSIS COENINGIANA, Echb. f. 



Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1879, vol. xi. p. 620. 



Described by Professor Eeichenbach from materials supplied by us, 

 and dedicated to Mr. Erastus Corning, the pioneer of orchid-growing in 

 America, whose collection at Albany, New York, was so famous in 

 its day. 



PHAL^ENOPSIS INTEEMEDIA, Lindl. 



Syns. P. Lobbii, Hort. 



Gard. Chron. 1852, p. 230 (notice of exhibit) ; Lindl. in Paxt. PL Gdn. 1853, vol. iii. 

 p. 163, fig. 310; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PL pt. vii. p. 44, fig.; Gard. Chron. 

 1886, vol. xxvi. p. 169 ; id. 1896, vol. xix. p. 106. 



Introduced by Thomas Lobb in 1852 among an importation of Pha- 

 lasnopsis Aphrodite. 



Later a French traveller, named M. Porte, brought two more plants 

 from the Philippine Islands, after which thirteen years elapsed before a 

 further addition was made by Messrs. Low & Co. 



Lindley was the first to surmise the existence of natural hybrids on 

 seeing a flower of Phalaenopsis intermedia, which combined the characters 

 of P. Aphrodite and those of P. rosea. 



In 1886 Seden flowered a hybrid at Chelsea, which had as parents 

 P. Aphrodite and P. rosea, which proved to be identical with the P. inter- 

 media of Lindley, and confirmed the supposition. 



PHAL^NOPSIS MACULATA, Echb. f. 



Echb. in Gard. Chron. 1881, vol. xvi. p. 134 ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PL pt. vii. p. 31. 



Introduced from Sarawak in Borneo in 1880, through Curtis, by 

 whom it was discovered growing on the limestone hills at an altitude of 



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