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the sepals oval-oblong ; the petals narrower, elliptic-oblong, acute ; lip 

 shorter than the other segments, three-lobed, the side lobes erect, 

 oblong, truncate, with an orange yellow protuberance on the inner side, 

 purple at the base, orange in the middle, white at the apex ; the 

 front lobe fleshy, oblong, with an acute, pubescent keel above, 

 amethyst-purple. Column white, swollen at the toothed apex. 



Phalsenopsis speciosa, Kchb. in Gard. Cbron. XV. (1881), p. 562. Williams' Orch. 

 Alb. IV. t. 158. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. p. 30. 



Sub-vars. — OhrisUana (Gard. Chron. XVIII. (1882) p. 74.5), sepals and 



column rose-purple, petals white ; Imperatrix (Sander's Reichenbachm II. 



t. 51), flowers deep rose-purple with some white markings on the 



sepals and petals. 



Discovered bj Major-General E. S. Berkeley growing upon trees, 



as he himself informs us, in several of the smaller islands of the 



Malay Archipelago, and introduced by him in 1881 ; it is one of 



the handsomest of the species included in the section Stauroglottis. 



P. Stuartiana. 



Leaves elHptic-oblong, 7 — 12 or more inches long, and 3 — 4 inches 

 broad, freckled above with transverse grey blotches, which often disappear 

 with age, purplish red beneath like those of Phalcenopsis Schilleriana. 

 Peduncles drooping, of variable length, branched, many-flowered. Flowers 

 1| — 2| inches in diameter ; sepals elliptic-oblong, the dorsal one white, 

 sometimes with a few purple dots on the basal half ; the lateral two 

 with a sunk median line, the outer half white, the inner half pale 

 yellow densely spotted with red-purple ; petals much larger than the 

 sepals, sub-rhomboidal, white, sometimes with a few purple dots 

 scattered over the basal half; lip three-lobed, with a .short, thick, 

 golden yellow crest, split at the summit into two oblong lobes ; the 

 lateral lobes of the lip obliquely obovate-oblong, the basilar part yellow 

 spotted with red-purple, the distal part whitish with fewer spots ; the 

 intermediate lobe narrow at the base, suddenly enlarged into a sub- 

 rhomboidal blade with two anchor-like appendages at the apex, light 

 yellow, sometimes white spotted with red-purple. 



Phalfenopsis Stuartiana, Rchb. in Gard. Chron XVI. (1881), p. 748. Id. p. 753, 

 icon. xyl. Fl. and Pomol. 1882, p. 49, Williams' Orch. Alb. V. t. 237. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 6622. 



sub-vars.— ^e//« (Gard. Chron. 111. s. 3 (1888), p. 200), the side lobes 

 of the lip with linear red marks, the front lobe with large purple- 

 chocolate blotches; Baron Hnibijs (Id. XXI. (1884), p. 372), sepals 

 and petals purple on the back with a white margin ; nobilis (Williams' 

 Orch. Alb. I. t. 39), flowers larger in all their parts with fewer and 

 larger spots on the lateral sepals and lij) ; pundatissivia (Gard. Chron. 

 XVII, (1882), p. 44), sepals and petals covered Avith minute purple 

 dots in addition to the usual .spots on the lateral sepals and lip. 



