ORCHID SPECIES 



1,000-1,500 ft., on damp almost bare rocks, under the shade of trees. It 

 is one of the smallest of the genus, the flowers being only some | to f in. 

 in diameter. 



PHAL^INOPSIS MABLEJ, Burbidge. 



Burbidge in Orchid Album, ii. t. 80, et sub t. 87 ; Bot. Mag. t. 6964 ; Veitchs' 

 Man. Orch. PI. pt. vii. p. 32 ; Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1886, vol. xxvi. p. 277. 



Discovered by Burbidge when in the Sulu Archipelago in 1878, and 

 dedicated by him to his wife. It was subsequently detected by David 

 Burke on the hills near the south-east coast of the island of Mindanao, 

 plentiful on the trunks and branches of trees in dense shade. It is a hand- 

 some species, allied to Phaleenopsis Lueddemanniana and P. sumatrana. 



PHAL^INOPSIS EOSEA, Lindl 



Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1848, p. 671, fig. ; Paxt. PI. Gdn. 1852, t. 72 ; Bot. Mag. 

 t. 5212 ; PI. des Serres, torn. xvi. t. 1645 ; Veitchs 1 Man. Orch. PI. pt. vii. p. 34. 



Introduced from Manila through Thomas Lobb in 1848, it is one of the 

 commonest of the Philippine Islands' Phalaenopses, and is found in 

 abundance in the hot valleys and along the streams in the neighbourhood 

 of Manila. 



Under cultivation it has helped in the production of many fine hybrids, 

 of which Phalaenopsis X Artemis (P. amabilis x P. rosea) ; P. X Cassandra 

 (P. Stuartiana x P. rosea) ; P. x Hebe (P. Sanderiana x P. rosea) ; 

 P. x Vesta (P. rosea leucaspis x P. Aphrodite), are the most noteworthy. 



PHAL^NOPSIS SUMATEANA, Echb. /., var. PAUCIVITTATA. 



Echb. in Gard. Chron. 1882, vol. xvii. p. 628 ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. vii. p. 40. 



PHAL^NOPSIS SUMATEANA, Bchb. /., var. SANGUINEA. 



Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1881, vol. xv. p. 782 j Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. vii. p. 40. 



Both these varieties occurred in an importation of the species sent by 

 Curtis from Borneo. 



The former variety has fewer and paler markings on the sepals and 

 petals, whilst in the variety sanguinea they are suffused with red-brown. 



PHALJENOPSIS x VEITCHIANA, Echb.f. 



Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1872, p. 935; id. 1884, vol. xxi. p. 270; PI. Mag. n.s. t. 213; 

 Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. vii. p. 47. 



A supposed natural hybrid, one of the rarest and most distinct, between 

 Phalaenopsis Schilleriana and P. rosea, which appeared as a solitary 

 specimen amongst our importation prior to 1872. 



PHAL^NOPSIS VIOLACEA, Teijsm. 



Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1878, vol. x. p. 234; id. 1881, vol. xvi. p. 145, fig. j PI. Mag. 

 1879, n.s. t. 342 ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. vii. p. 41, figs. 



Originally discovered by Teijsman near Pelambang, in Sumatra, in 



149 L 



