PHAL.ENOPSIS, 



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base ; hieroglyphica (Gard. Cliron. II. s. 3 (1887), p. 586), sepals and 

 petals cream-white covered Avith small cinnamon spots and marT.ings ; 

 ochracea (Gard. Chron. 1865, p. 434), the stripes on the sepals and 

 petals light ochre-yellow; pulcltm (Gard. Chron. IV. (1875), p. 36), 

 upper part of sepals and petals port-wine colour, the inferior part, as 

 well as the lip and column, amethyst-purple, the transverse bars nearly 

 obliterated. 



Introduced by Messrs. Low and Co., in 1864, from the Philippine 

 Islands, where it is abundant in the neighbourhood of Manila, 

 and named in compliment to the late M. Liiddemann, a well-known 

 orchidist of Paris, who was the first European cultivator to bring 

 the plant into bloom. The variability in the colour of the flowers of 

 this species has been observed from the time of its first introduc- 

 tion ; the sub- varieties described above being among the most 

 distinct. Our illustration represents a richly coloured form in the 

 collection of Baroa Schroeder at The Dell. 



P. maculata. 



A diminutive plant. Leaves elliptic-oblong, 2—4 inches long. Peduncles 

 ascending, as long as, or longer than the leaves, few flowered. Flowers 

 I — f inch in diameter ; sepals oval-oblong, acute, cream- white, 

 with three — five red-brown transverse blotches ; petals similar but 

 narrower ; lip fleshy, three-lobed, the lateral lobes angular, erect, white 

 spotted with red-brown, and with a small yellow callus on the inner 

 side ; the intermediate lobe convex with a raised median line above, 

 bright red. Column terete, white. 



Phalsenopsis maculata, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XVI. (1881), p. 134. 

 Introduced by us in 1880, from Sarawak, in Borneo, through 

 Curtis, who found it on the limestone hills at an altitude of 

 1,000 — 1,500 feet, growing on damp, almost bare i^ocks under the 

 shade of large trees, many of which are loaded with tufts of 

 Phalcenopsis Cornu-cervi. It is one of the smallest of the genus. 



P. Mannii. 



Leaves variable in size, the largest obovate-oblong, or oblanceolate- 

 oblong, sub-falcate acute, 6 — 8 inches long, 1^ — 2 inches broad. Peduncles 

 as long as, or longer than the leaves, usually with two — three short 

 branches, 10 — 15 or more flowered. Flowers about 2 inches across 

 vertically ; sepals and petals golden yellow barred and blotched with 

 chestnut-brown, linear-oblong, acute with slightly re flexed margins, the 

 lateral sepals falcately curved, the petals narrower and shorter than the 

 sepals ; lip of peculiar form and structure, shorter than the other 



