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petals three times as broad as the sepals but coloured like them, 

 sub-rhomboidal, the outer margin rotund ; lip three-lobed, the side lobes 

 erect and resembling two incurved horn-like bodies that are white 

 with a yellow spot ; the middle lobe deep purple, oblong, Avith two 

 small teeth at the base and a raised mid-line that is dilated and 

 thickened near the apex. Column curved, pale purple and convex above, 

 concave beneath ; anther with a long beak reflexed at the apex some- 

 what resembling an elephant's trunk. 



Phaltenopsis Lowii, Rchb. in Bot. Zeit. 1852, p. 214. Id. Xen. Orch. IT. 

 p. 139, t. 151. Bot. Maq. t. 53.51. Warner's Sel. Orch. IT. t. 15. Van 

 Houtte's Fl. des S^rre^, XVIII. t. 1910. The Garden, IX. (1876), t. 14. Gard. 

 Chron. II. s. 3 (1887), p. 745, icon. xyl. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. p. 30. 

 P. proboscidioides, Parish in lit. ad Low, fide Rchb. 



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Phalaenopsis Lowii. 



A lovely species discovered by the Rev. C. S. Parish, in Moulmein, 

 Burmah, through w^hom it was introduced by Messrs. Low and Co. 

 in 1862. Major- General E. S. Berkeley, who has seen Phalcenopsis Lowii 

 in its native home, writes in the Gardeners' Chronicle of 1887 (I. s. 3, 

 p. 279) :— 



"This plant loses all its leaves in its native habitat immediately 

 after flowering. It grows on limestone rocks, and on the branches of 

 small bushes growing in the crevices of the rocks. The surrounding 

 country is under water the greater part of the year, and the rainfall 

 is excessive ; by the end of November the country dries up, and in 

 January the flower stems and leaves have withered, nothing remaining 

 but the roots ; these cease to grow, but are kept plump by the heavy 

 dew that falls at night. The resting season is short, as showers fall 

 in March when the plants at once begin to put forth fresh leaves. 

 This species grows on the north-east side of the limestone hills, and 



