80 PHALJINOPSIS. 



is thence protected from the effects of the afternoon heat of a tropical 

 sun. During the rains the limestone rocks are covered with many 

 beautiful annual Balsams and tuberous Begonias ; this will give a hint 

 to the gardeners of the kind of moist heat required to grow Phalcenopsis 

 Lowii in perfection," 



P. Luddemanniana. 



Leaves not usually more than three — five on one plant, oblong or 

 oval-oblong. 6 — 9 inches long and 2—3-^ inches broad. Peduncles 

 procumbent, as long as the leaves, 5 — 7 or more flowered. Flowers 

 2 inches in diameter ; sepals and petals elliptic-oblong, the sejjals 

 chestnut-brown with some narro\v, pale yellow transverse streaks and 



Phalaenopsis Luddemanniana. 



whitish margin, the basal half with a broad amethyst-purple median 



band; the petals smaller than the sepals, bright amethyst purple with 



whitish margin and with some chestnut-brown spots towards the 



apex ; lip clawed, three-lobed, the side lobes erect, oblong, refuse and 



two-toothed at the apex, white with some light purple stains, and 



with a bright yellow lobule in front ; the intermediate lobe fleshy, 



obovate-oblong, keeled above, bright amethyst-purple with a pale 



margin, and with some erect white bristles along the keel. Column 



terete, white, stained with light purple, anther beaked. 



PhalffiDopsis Liiddemanniaua, Rchb. in Mohl. et Schl. Bot. Zeit. 1865, p. 146. 

 Id. ill Gard. Chron. 1865, p. 410. Bot. Mag. t. 5523. Van Houtte's H. des 

 Serves, XVl. t. 1635 (copied from the Bot. Mag.). Rev. hort. 1872, t. 390. 

 Florist et Pomol. 1865, p. 257. 



SUb-varS. — delicata (Gard. Chron. 1865, p. 434), the clustered stripes on 

 the sepals and petals narrow, the amethyst-purple confined to the very 



