phal.¥:nopsis. 



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near the base ; the side lobes of the lip light purple streaked with red, 



the front lobe red-purple. 



P. intermedia Brymeriana, Rchb. in Gard Chron. V. (1876), p. 366. FL Mag. 

 N.s. t. 263. 



var.— Portei. 



Flowers somewhat larger than the typical form ; sepals and petals 



white with a purple stain at the base of each, the basal area of the 



side lobes of the lip light tawny yellow spotted Avith red, the apical 



area amethyot-purple, the front lobe amethyst-purple toned with red. 



P. intermedia Portei, Rdib. in Bot. Zeit. 1863, p. 168. Warner's Sel. Orch. II. 

 t. 2. FL Mag. N.s. t. 162. P. Portei, Gard. Chron. V. (1876), p. 370, with figs. 



Phalienopsis intermedia. 



Phalcenopsis intermedia first appeared as a solitary plant among 

 an importation of P. Aphrodite received by our Exeter firm from 

 Thomas Lobb in 1852, and this remained the only one known of 

 this hybrid till two more were brought from the Philippine Islands, 

 in 1861, by a French trader named M. Porte, and which differed 

 from the original P. intermedia, and received the varietal name 

 under which it is described above. Thirteen years elapsed before 

 another addition was made to the group, and then it was amongst 

 an importation of Messrs. Tiow and Co. ; one of these plants 

 flowered in Mr. Brymer's collection, at Ilsington House, Dorchester, 

 in the spring of 1876, which dilFering from the preceding introduc- 

 tions was named in compliment to that gentleman. Since that date 

 the typical form and also the two varieties have appeared very 



