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Phalcenopsis leucorhoda was introduced from the Philippine Islands 

 by Messrs. Low and Co., in 1874, amongst an importation of the 

 supposed parents ; costa was introduced in like manner about the 

 same time by the same firm. Several intermediate forms have 

 since appeared in various collections that have well nigh bridged 

 over the not very broad difference that originally separated them. 

 Cynthia first appeared iu the collection of Mr. F. Wigan, at Clare 

 Lawn, East Sheen, where it flowered in the spring of 1890 ; it was 

 probably introduced by Messrs. Low and Co., as a Phalaenopsis 

 in their establishment produced flowers shortly afterwards that were 

 almost identical with those of Mr. Wigan's plant.* The influence of 

 P. ScJuUeriana greatly preponderates in this supposed hybrid, and it 

 may possibly have resulted from the reversed cross of that which 

 produced P. leucorhoda and its variety casta. 



The forms we have here described constitute one of the most 

 beautiful groups of Phalsenopses in cultivation. 



P. Veitchiana. 



A supposed natural hybrid between Phalcenopsis Schilleriana and P. 



rosea. Leaves nearly as in P. rosea with a few faint greyish markings 



irregularly scattered over the surface. Flowers 2 inches in diameter ; 



sepals white with a flush of light purple below the middle ; petals sub- 



rhomboidal, broader than the sepals, white witli a deeper purple stain ; 



the side lobes of the lip broadly spathulate, incurved, the basal half 



white spotted with red, the apical half crimson-purple ; the front lobe 



somewhat lyre-shaped, with two straight, pointed teeth at the apex, 



crimson-purple. Column purplish. 



Phalsenopsis Veitchiana, Kchb. in Gard. Chron. 1872, p. 935. Id. XXI. (1884), 

 p. 270 (brachyodon). Fl. Mag. N.s. t. 213. 



This is one of the rarest as well as one of the most distinct ot the 



natural hybrids. It first appeared as a solitary specimen among one 



of our own importations prior to 1872, iu which year it flowered 



for the first time. It remained the only plant known of Phalcenopsis 



Veitchiana till a second was imported by Messrs. Low and Co. in 



1883, which differed but little from the first, except in the shorter 



thicker, apical teeth of the front lobe of the labellum. 



*Gard. Chroii. VII., b. 3 (1890), p. 227. 



