26 PHAL^NOPSIS. 



The specific name, Aphrodite, is mythological, and is the Greek 

 name of the goddess Venus, selected doubtless on account of the 

 great beauty of the flowei's. 



P. Boxalli. 



Leaves ovate-oblong, 5 — 6 inches long. Peduncles terete, stoutish, as 

 long as or longer than the leaves, racemose, 9 — 12 flowered. Flowers 

 l^ inches in diameter, on slender whitish pedicels sheathed at the base 

 by a small, acute, green bract ; sepals lanceolate, acute, yellow blotched 

 and barred transversely with red-brown ; petals shorter and narrower 

 than the sepals, linear-oblanceolate ; lip of very complex structure ; in 

 front of the short claw are two reflexed, oblong, whitish plates, repre- 

 senting the side lobes, each having a cirrus or bristle on the anterior side ; 

 the front lobe is anchor-shaped, with a pale yellow fleshy plate, having a 

 purple tooth near its base. Column clavate, with a small rounded wing 

 on each side of the stigma, reddish brown towards the base, yellow above. 

 Phalsenopsis Boxalli, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XIX. (1883), p. 274. 

 Introduced in 1882, by Messrs. Low and Co., from the Philippine 

 Islands, through their collector, Boxall ; it belongs to the section 

 Stauroglottis, its nearest aflBnities being Phalcenopsis Cornu-cervi and 

 P. Mannii. We are indebted to Baron Schroeder, of The Dell, 

 Staines, for materials for description. 



P. Cornu-cervi. 



Leaves oblong, or ovate-oblong, sub-acute, cuneate at base, leathery, bright 

 glossy green. Peduncles sub-erect or nodding, racemose along the distal 

 half, the rachis broad and compressed, 7 — 12 flowered Flowers 1-^ — 2 

 inches in diameter, expanding in succession from below upwards, three to 

 five being open at one time; sepals and petals spreading, elliptic-oblong, 

 acute, yellow-green barred and blotched with red-brown, the petals a 

 little narrower than the sepals, and the lateral sepals partially falcate, 

 keeled behind ; lip shorter than the other segments, white, clawed, three- 

 lobed, the side lobes oblong, erect, the front lobe crescent-shaped, hollow, 

 with an awned callus at the base. Column semi-terete, with two tubercles 

 at the base. 



Phalrenopsis Cornu-cervi, Blume et Rchb. in Hamb. Gartenz, 1860, p. 116. Hook, 



f. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. p. 29. Polychilos Cornu-cervi, Kuhl et Hasselt, Orch. jav. 



ed Breda, t. 1 (1827). Lindley, Fol. Orch. Polycliilos, No. 1 (1853^. Miquel, Fl. 



ind. bat. III. p. 681. £of. Mag. t. 5570 



The following interesting account of the geographical distribution 

 of Phalcenopsis Cornu-cervi and its environment in situ, communicated 

 to the Gardeners' Chronicle by Major-General E. S. Berkeley, affords 

 at least one phase of orchid life in a tropical jungle, of which we still 

 know too little : — 



