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PHAL.ENOPSIS. 



fore very extensive ; it is, so far as at present known, the most 

 widely distributed of all the species of Eophal.enopsis. 



P. amethystina. 



Eoots flattened towards the apex. Leaves ublong-cuneate, 3 — 4 inches 



long., 1 — 11 inch broad. Peduncles simple or branched, longer than the 



leaves, few-flowered. Flowers comparatively small ; sepals and petals 



white, the former obovate-oblong, the lateral two adiiate at their base 



to the foot of the column, the petals a little smaller than the sepals, 



oblong-spathulate ; lip bright amethyst-purple, striated and margined 



with white, three-lobed, the side lobes spathulate-oblong, the apical 



margin denticulate, the front lobe shortly clawed, broadly obcordate, 



Avith a semi-lunar sinus in the anterior margin ; crest with two 



divergent teeth. Column short, anther beake<l. 



Phalffinopsis amethystina, Rchb. iu Gard. Chron, 1865, p. 602. Id. 1870, 

 p. 1731, icon. xyl. 



Vaguely stated to be of Sundaic origin, probably Java or Sumatra, 

 It flowered in the collection of Mr. C. Stead, at The Knoll, near Leeds, 

 in 1870, and in the Koyal Gardens at Kevv, in November, 1888 and 

 following years. It is a dwarf, elegant little plant, flowering in the 

 late autumn. We are indebted to the Royal Gardens at Kew for 

 materials for description. 



P. Aphrodite. 



Leaves elliptic oblong, variable in size, 8 — 15 inches long, 2 — 3^ inches 

 broad, of a uniform deep green above, purplish beneath. Pedimcles 

 2 — 3 feet long, arching, green mottled with dark purple, sometimes 

 racemed, sometimes loosely panicled, many flowered. Flowers 2^ — 3^ 

 inches across the petals; sepals and petals white, the upper sepal oblong, 

 obtuse, the lateral sepals ovate-falcate, acute, keeled behind ; petals 

 rhomboidal, as broad again as the sepals ; lip three-lobed, the claw and 

 basal area of the side lobes pencilled and spotted with purple and 

 with a pale yt^dow stain on each side ; the side lobes clawed, broadly 

 oval, ascending and incurved; the front lobe hastate with very acute 

 basal angles, and bearing at the apex two long recurved crumpled cirri ; 

 crest bi-lobate, the lobes toothed at the apical end, yellow spotted with 

 red. Column short, terete, white ; anther beaked. 



Phalsenopsis Aphrodite, Rchb. in Hamb. Zeit. 1862, p. 35. Id. Xen. Orch. 

 II p. 6. Rolfe iu Gard. Chron. XXVI. (1SS6), p. 212. P. amabilis, Lindl. (not 

 Blume) in Bot. Reg. 1838, t. 34. Paxt, Maq. Bot. FII. ]>. 49 (1840). Van Houtte's 

 Fl. des Serres, I. t. 36. Bot. Mag. t. 4297. 



var.—Dayana. 



The purple markings of the lip extend over u greater area, 

 including the front lobe, which has a broad median, and marginal 

 lines of the same colour. 



P. Aphrodite Dayana, supra. P. amabilis Dayaua, Williams' Orch. Alb. I. 

 t. 11 (1882). 



