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PHALJINOPSIS. 



inches long, 3 — 4 inches broad, bright shining green. Peduncles stoutish, 



short, sheathed at each joint by a triangular, acute, pale green, keeled bract, 



2 — 5 or more flowered. Flowers 2 — 3 inches in diameter, the dorsal 



sepal and petals similar, ovate-oblong, mucronate, greenish white with 



a bright violet-purple blotch at the base, which sometimes spreads to 



beyond the middle ; the lateral sepals oblong, acute, sub-falcate, with a 



depressed mid-line and keeled behind, the inner half violet-purple to 



two-thirds of the length, the apical third whitish, the outer half greenish 



white ; lip shortly clawed, three-lobed, the side lobes oblong, erect, truncate, 



golden yelloAv, with a small yellow crest between them that is prolonged 



in front into a narrow plate, bifid at the apex; the front lobe bright 



violet-purple, obovate-oblong, apiculate, keeled above, and with two small 



bristles at the basal end of the keel, concave beneath. Column thickened 



at the base, terete above, deep purple. 



Phalfeiiopsis violacea, Teijsm. et Binn. PI. iiov. in hort. Bogor. cult. p. 16 (1863). 

 Flore dcs Jardins des Fays Bas, IF. p. 129. Rchb, in Gard. Chron. X. (1878), 

 p. 234. Fl. Mag. n.s. t. 342 (187P). Gard. Chron. XVI. (1881), p. 145, icon. xyl. 

 WilUams' Orch. Alb. IV. t. 182. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. p. 29. 



Phalceiiopsis violaopa. 



SUb-VarS. — alha (PI. ii<n-. in hori. iJogor. cult. p. 17,, &e}ials and petals 

 French-white, the side lobes and crest of the lip yellow, the front lobe 

 light rose; Baron Schroeder's {Illus. hort. 1885, t. 173. Gard. Chron. 

 XVIII. (1882), p. 680), the basal half of all the segments brigh purple, 

 the colour partially broken up into lines ; Mr. Bon-ring's (Gard. Chron. 

 XXII, (1884), p. 262), light yellow with a broad purple stain on the 

 lateral sepals and some purple marlvings at the ham; of the petals and 



