s. 



Plate 171. 



PHALiENOPSIS SCHILLERIANA. 



Schiller s Phalanopsis, 



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Gen. Char, {Vide supra, Plate 114.) 



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PHAL.ENOPSIS ScJiiUericmaj foliis zeLrinis oblongis obtusis paniculu multiflor^ nutante bre^noribns, 

 sepalo dorsali obovato obtuse acuto, lateralibus ovatis acutioribiis^ petalis rhumbeis iniilto 

 latioribus, labelli lobis lateralibus oblongis . ascenJentibus^ intcnuodio ovali apice utriiKjiio' 

 bifalci^ callo quadricorni in basi. 



Phalj;nopsis Scliillerlana. Bchb.Jil. ' Xenia Orchidacea/ t.lOI. Id. in Ilamh. Gartenzeihmg, I SCO. 

 i?. 144 Lindl. ' Gardeners' Chronicle/ 1860, p. 2\ 6 -, 1 861, p. 617 j 1862,^.95. Warncr'a 

 ' Select Orchidaceous Plants/ jpl. 1. Lemaire, in Illus. Hurt. 1863, pi 348. 



As in the case of the Fhalcenopsis figured at PL 114, the honour of having heen the 

 first to introduce and to flower the subject of the opposite Plate rests with the Conti- 

 nental Orchid-growers. And it is one of which they may well be proud, for no species 

 of the lovely genus to which it belongs— no, not even P. amciMlis itself— can at all be 

 compared with it in beauty. In dedicating it under these circumstances to his distin- 

 guished countryman, Consul Schiller, of Hamburg, Professor Reichenbach paid a well- 

 merited compliment to one whose collection of Orchids has long been renowned, and 

 still maintains its celebrity. 



There are many varieties, Avhich differ from each other in the marbling of the leaves, 

 the size and tinting of the blossoms. Those which first appeared among us 



cely gave a fair idea of the efi^ect the plant is capable of prod 



best 



kinds have attained their proper vigour. Mr. WiUiams, of Ilolloway, mentions his 

 navmg imported a plant on which was a native flower-stem that had borne a hundred 

 blossoms, and that number has been already exceeded in the case of a spike boriic by 

 one of the plants in Mr. Gibb's collection at St. Dunstan's, in the Ee-ent's Park. As 

 ^^^ plant is found at a higher level in the Philippines than P. amaUUs, it need not be 

 _ ^Pt quite so warm, but under almost any circumstances it grows well 



and blooms freely 



m the winter and spring 



