PHAL.T;N<i]'SIS. 



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lobed, the lateral lobes broad, sub-orbicular, incurved over the column, 



the apices nearly meeting, white, faintly spotted with pale rose 



externally, with a yellow blotch at the base on the inner side ; the 



front lobe hastate, curved upwards at the apex, which is prolonged 



into two flexuose, incurved tendrils an inch long, the blade white 



with some longitudinal purple streaks at the base ; crest bilobate, each 



lobe bidentate at the tip, bright yellow spotted Avith red. Column 



terete, white with a rose-purple stain at the apex. 



Phaltenopsis Sanderiana, Kchb. iu Gard. Chrou. XL\. (1883), p. 646. The 

 Garden XXIV. (1888), pi. 407. Godefroy's OrehidophUe (1885), p. 18. Williams' 

 Orch. Alh. V. i. 209. 



Phalrpnopsi.s Sanderiana alba. 



SUb-vars. — alba, flowers Avhite with a few light purple spots at the 

 base of the side lobes of the lip and some yellow spots on the crest ; 

 marmorafa (Gard. Chron. XX. (1883), p. 812), the lateral sepals with 

 rows of small purple spots at the base, the side lobes of the lip 

 with three nearly parallel purple lines, the front lobe marbled with 

 purple; punctata ((^ard. Chron. VII. s. 3 (1890), p. 78), the lateral 

 sepals spotted like those of Phalcennpsis Stuartiana. 

 Introduced by Messrs, Sander and Co. from the Philippine Islands 

 in 1882, through their collector, Roebelin ; it was shortly afterwards 



