a small bractea. FLowers full three inches in diameter, white, and 
of a thick, almost leathery consistence; the outer divisions tinged with 
a yellowish green, the inner ones very broad; the labellum veined 
and tinged with purple and yellow; the middle divisions ending in 
two curious long twisted awns, 
PorutarR AND GeoarapuicaL Notice. This splendid epiphyte 
is a native of the islands of the Indian Archipelago, where it was 
first found by Rumphius ascending the Mangos of the Island of 
Amboyna, and other short thick-stemmed mossy trees, thichly matting 
them with its numerous roots and tufted stems, from whence hung 
the long ample panicles. Osbeck, Blume, and Horsfield, afterwards 
gathered it on various points of the wooded coast of Java, and Cuming 
in the Phillipine Islands. It is, as far as is hitherto known, the only 
species of a genus placed by Lindley and other botanists in the tribe 
of Vander. It would appear, though, from Rumphius, that there is a 
second species or very marked variety with the flowers purple outside. 
It is known in the country, according to Rumphius, by the names of 
white or male Angrec; the Dutch settlers calling it the Flying Dove, 
not an unapt simile. 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE Grown; CuLturs. The specimen from 
which the accompanying drawing was taken, the only one which has 
hitherto flowered in this country, and perhaps the only one which we 
possess, was received from Mr. Cuming, from Manilla, by Messrs. Rol- 
linson of Tooting, and flowered for the first time in the spring of 1838. 
This year it produced two long racemes, and was exhibited at the 
May show of the Horticultural Society, where it was admired as one 
of the finest objects at the most remarkable exhibition the Society 
had yet had, and received the gold Knightian medal, the highest 
reward offered for that description of plants. It seems to require only 
the usual culture of orchidaceous plants, one principal attendant of 
which, it should be remembered, is a hot moist atmosphere. 
DERIVATION oF THE NAMEs. 
Puarznorsis from ¢aXawa, PHALAINA, a moth, and oyxuc, opsis, resemblance ; 
the flower having been compared to some curious lepidopterous insect, 
AmaBitts. lovely. 
SyNONYMES. 
— AMABILE, Linneus: spun Plantarum, p. 135 
&£CUM ALBUM Masus. Rumphius: Herbarium Amboinense, v. 6, p. 99, t 
ine magnate. Blume: Bijdragen, p. 294, t. 44. Tisdiy, Botanica 
Registe: . 34. Bennett: in Horsfield’s Plante Javanicw Rariores 
