PHAL.ENOPSIS. 



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two incurved appendages like the flukes of an anchor, white or pale 



rose-purple, usually dotted with amethyst-purple ; crest a short column 



terminating in two spreading lobes, bright yellow spotted with red. 



Column semiterete ; anther beaked. 



Phalfenopsis Schilleriana, Rchb. in Hamb. Gartenz. 1860, p. 144. Id. in 

 Gard. Chron. I860, p. 216. Id. Xeii. Oreh. II. p. 1. t. 101. Warner's Sd. 

 Orcli. I. t. 1 (1862). Id. 111. t. 5 (splendens). Van Houtte's Fl. des Serves, XV. 

 t. 1559—60. Illus. hort. X. t. 348. Bot. Mag. t. 5530. Kegel's Gartenfl. 1868, 

 t. 581. Jennings' Orch. t. 15. De Puydt. Les Orch. t, 35. Fl. Mag. n.s. 

 1877, t. 257. 



BVih-YdJrQ.— iminarnlafa {CrM\\. Chvon. III. (1875), p. 429), the spots of 

 the lip and its crest absent; resfalis (Gard. Chron. XVII. (1882), 

 p. 330), flowers wholly white. 



I'halmnopsis Schillcriaiia. 



This superb Phalfenopsis was introduced from Manila in 1858 by 

 the late Consul Schiller, of Hamburgh, in whose collection at 

 Ovelgonne, on the Elbe, it flowered for the first time in Europe, in 

 the spring of 1860, and to whom it is appropriately dedicated. In 

 the following year it was imported by M. Porte, a French merchant, 

 trading in the Philippines, whose plants were acquired by the late 

 Mr. B. S. Williams, of llolloway, one of which flowered for the 

 first time in this country in Mr. Robert Wnrner's collection at 

 Broomfield, Clielmsford, in February, 1862. From that time to 



