PHALA:NOPSIS SPECIOSA Reis. ¢ IMPERATRIX zm. Berd. 
PHALANOPSIS SPECIOSA : € grege Phalenopsidis Luddemanniane Rchb. f, ovariis longissime pedicellatis, labelli partitione antica oblongoligulata 
superne prope ancipiti, antice pulvinari prope hemispherico piloso, partitionibus lateralibus ligulatis retusis, superne paucidentatis ; jugo calloso oblique 
utrinque discum aggrediente, column androclinio denticulato, 
PHAL&NOPSIS SPECIOSA Rchb. f, Gard. Chron. 1881, April 30, p. 562! 1882, Dec. 9, p. 745! xyl. 130! B.S. Williams Orch, Gr. Man. ed. 6, xyl. p. 
537 ! (eadem ill. Berkeleyi.) 
Planta speciosa, Folia cuneato oblonga obtuse acuta, Panicula seu racemus. Flores coriacci stellati pulchri, extus aquose albo-rosei seriebus 
macularum purpurearum, intus purpurei fasciis paucis albis. Labelli partitio mediana purpurea seu violaceopurpurea pulvinari ac carina mediana albis. 
Partitiones laterales medio flava, apice et basi albz. Columna alba, Suaveolens. 
In Andaman Islands detexit cl. Emericus Berkeley. Primus introduxit exc. W. Bull. 
Icones analytic. Flos speciminis typici a latere. Labelli partitio antica expansa +  Labelli partitio lateralis expansa, 
VAR. IMPERATRIX Em. Berk. Gard. Chron. 1882, Dec. 9, p. 745! Sepalis ac tepalis concoloribus, magis obtusis, foliis majoribus, major. 
Phalznopsis speciosa Rchb. f. Warner, Williams, Moore, Orch. Album iv. 158! Tabula nostra. 
VAR. CHRISTIANA Em, Berk. Gard. Chron. 1882, Dec. 9, P. 745, et xyl. 158!: sepalis columnaque roseopurpureis, tepalis albis, floribus minoribus. 
Hf. G. Rehb. f. 
For the discovery and introduction of this charming orchid our gardens are indebted to General Emeric Berkeley. He 
found it in the Andaman Islands, a small group in the Indian Ocean, where one would hardly expect to find a new 
Phalzenopsis, seeing how far these islands are removed from the head-quarters of the genus. Phalzenopsis speciosa has 
close affinity with P. tetraspis, and resembles the pretty P. Luddemanniana inhabiting the Philippine Islands. Gen. 
Berkeley's plant is unquestionably one of the most beautiful of the small flowered Phalzenopsis, and the brilliant and varied 
colouring of the flowers fully compensates for their small size. Compared with P. tetraspis its leaves are of a lighter 
green and it is more floriferous, but the habit of growth is much the same. The colour of the typical form is pale rose, 
heavily marked with transverse bands of deep rose madder, and is brightest on the inner faces of the sepals and petals. 
The lip is white blotched with rosy purple and with the side lobes bright yellow. There seems to be a good deal of 
variation in colour, and two of the most distinct forms are named Christiana and Imperatrix. The former has the sepals 
and column a bright rose purple with petals pure white ; the flowers are smaller and more numerous than in other forms. 
The variety Imperatrix has flowers of a deep rose purple, with no white markings whatever, and the lip is adorned with 
bright yellow blotches on the side lobes. Combined with the bright colouring the flowers have a delicious fragrance, 
so that it is a most desirable plant. Both these forms were first flowered in Gen. Berkeley’s collection at Sibbertoft, 
Market Harborough, and his specimens of them are great rarities, 
This species is free growing and may be as easily managed as P. Luddemanniana, sumatrana, and violacea. It is 
best grown in suspended baskets close under the roof, and while in active growth requires considerable heat and 
moisture. A temperature ranging in the growing season between 75 and 80 deg. F. suits it well, and though it cannot 
have too much light, it must be carefully shaded from the direct rays of strong sunlight, as its foliage, being of a 
tender nature, is liable to injury. After the growing season and during the winter months the temperature should be 
reduced to 70 deg. by night, rising to 75 deg. by day, and during the dull season both atmospheric moisture and water at 
the roots must be diminished or the foliage will suffer from spot. The flowering season occurs about August, and if the 
plants are kept in a cool and rather dry house the flowers continue a very long time in beauty, 
Prepared from a plant in the collection of F. G. Tautz, Esq., Studley House, Goldhawk Road, London. 
