32 PHALilSNOPSTS. 



perianth segments, tliree-lobed, tlie side lobes erect, ohlnnrr, truncate, 



light yellow ; the front lobe also light yellow, anchor-shaped, saccate at 



the base, the flukes of the anchor pubescent and denticulate ; in fi'ont 



of the side lobes is an erect, pury)lish tooth, and behind that is a slender 



upright plate terminating in two divergent cirri. Column clavate with 



two tooth-like protulierances at the base, golden yellow stained with red 



on the side opposite the li]i. 



PhaliBDopsis Mannii, RoliK in fiard. Chron. 1871, p. 902. Hook. f. Fl. P.rit. Tnd. 

 VI. p. 30. 



Discovered in 1868 by Mr. Glustav Mann, a gentleman in the 

 service of the Indian Forest Department. No locality is given with 

 ReiclienbacVs description, but as the plant has since been received 

 from Assam its habitat is thence known. So far as at present 

 known, Phalcenopsh'^ Mannii* is an outlying member of the genus, 

 living at a higher altitude and under climatic conditions that differ 

 from those under which all the other species have been found. 



CiilfnraJ Nofp. — This Phalsenopsis is successfully cultivated liy ^Ii'. 

 Richard Maries, in his nursery at Mythop, near Lytham, Lancashire. 

 Mr. Maries informs us that the plants are grown in baskets, with a 

 drainage of broken crocks and charcoal, xipon which sphagnum alone 

 is placed. The baskets are suspended near the glass of a span-roofed 

 house, exposed to the full light of the afternoon sun, where in winter 

 the temperature is not more than 7° C. (45° R), and even lower in 

 very cold weather. The plants continue in flower for upwards of 

 three months. 



P. Mariae. 



Leaves deflexed, narrowly obovate-oblong, 6 — 10 inches long, bright glossy 



green. Pedimcles as long as, or longer than the leaves, usually 



branched, few flowered. Flowers distant, 1| — 2 inches in diameter, on 



short, slender, pale pedicels ; sepals and petals similar and sub-equal, 



oval-oblong, obtuse, yellowish white, with 4 — 5 broad, chestnut-brown, 



transverse bands and an amethyst-purple stain at the base ; lip shorter 



than the other segments, three-lobed, the lateral lobes narrowly oblong, 



erect, incurved towards the column, white with a purple stain in the 



middle, and a yellow lobule on the anterior side ; the intermediate 



lobe fleshy, bright amethyst-purple, obovate-oblong, with a recurved spur 



at the base, keeled above, the keel clothed with white hairs. Column 



terete, anther beaked. 



Plialaenopsis Mariae, Burbidge in lit ad nos. Williams' Orcli. Alb. II. t. 80. Bot. 

 Mag. t. 6964. 



A handsome species, closely allied to Phalcenopsis Luddemanniana 



* Perhaps not strictly isolated from all its congeners ; a sub- variety of PJiaJa'iwpsis Parishii 

 has been gathered by Lobb, Mann, and Keenan in Assam. 



