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base ; the front lobe stained with yellow and spotted with red from 

 the base to beyond the middle, the apical area white, the tendrils 

 anchor-shaped at the base with the arms elongated into slender cirri ; 

 crest bright canary-yellow dotted with red-purple. 



Phala^nopsis Rothschildiana, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. I, s. 3 (1887), p. 606. 



Raised by Seden at our nursery. It is dedicated to the Right Hon. 

 Lord Rothschild, a distinguished amateur of Phalaenopses, and whose 

 cultivation of these plants at Tring Park is probably the best in Europe. 



RHYNCHOSTYLIS. 



Blunie, Bijdr. p. 285, t. 49 (1825). Rehb. iu Walp. Ann. VI. p. 887 (1864). Beuth. 

 et Hook. Gen. Plant. III. p. 574 (1883). 



The genus Rhyncliostylis was founded by Blume upon the beautiful 

 species commonly known in gardens as Saccolahium Blumei, and 

 whicli Reichenbach adopted in his monograph of the Orchide.s; 

 published in Walper's Annales Botanices Sijstematicce, in 1864, joining 

 with the type species Lindley^s Vanda violacea, a plant that is much 

 nearer Saccolabium, and is now referred to that genus. Bentham 

 has followed Reichenbach in adopting Blume's Rhynchostylis for the 

 type species, to which must now be added the scarcely less beautiful 

 Siamese species recently introduced and cultivated under the name 

 of Saccolabium cceleste, but which conforms to the type in every 

 essential generic character. 



The following are the most obvious characters that distinguish 

 Rhynchostylis from Saccolabium : — 



In Rhynchostylis the column is produced at its base into a kind of 



foot, to the apex of which the labellum is attached, and not simply 



continuous with the ovary with the labellum sessile at its base as in 



Saccolabium, Moreover, in Rhynchostylis the saccate spur of the 



labellum is much compressed and opposed to the front lobe, while in 



Saccolabium the spur or saccate base usually (not always) projects 



straight downwards at a right angle to the front lobe. 



The name Rhynchostylis is derived from pvy'^og (rhynchos), 



" a beak/^ and (ttvXo^ (stylos), ' a pillar,^' in reference to the 



beaked column of the flower, but as this character pervades most 



of the allied genera the name is not especially applicable to the 



species of Rhynchostylis. 



