PHALANOPSIS INTERMEDIA BRYMERIANA. 
[PLate 415.] 
Native of the Philippine Islands. 
Epiphytal. Stemless, bearing distichous ligulate leaves of an oblong-ovate form, 
thick and fleshy in texture, and rich green on the upper side, pale green beneath. 
In some forms the leaves are quite oblong, and bear transverse streaks of silvery 
grey over the upper side, plainly showing a Schillerianian origin, but these white 
streaks fade out with age. Raceme axillary, gracefully arched, and bearin many 
flowers, which are quite intermediate in size between P. Schilleriana and P. rosea. 
Sepals and petals spreading, of good substance, the sepals oblong acute, petals 
much broader than the sepals, rhomboid, acute, all white, tinged with rosy lilac, 
the lateral sepals frequently dotted with magenta, the lateral ones incurved, somewhat 
cuneate, obtuse, white flushed and freckled with magenta, anterior lobe ovate, 
bi-cirrhose at the apex; at the base of these cirrhi is a little fleshy ridge, the whole 
front lobe being coloured soft amethystine-purple, stained with yellow on the basal 
edge, the fleshy crest at the junction of the lobes depressed in the centre, yellow, 
freckled with deep red. Column soft rosy purple. 
PHALNOPSIS INTERMEDIA Brymertana, Reichenbach fil., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
N.8., 1876, p. 366; Floral Magazine, Second Series, t. 263; Williams’ Orchid- 
Grower's Manual, 6 ed., p. 5$1. 
In the year 1837 Hugh Cuming sent the Messrs. Rollisson, of Tooting, some plants 
which Lindley named Phalenopsis amabilis, the Queen of Orchids, and it was the 
first species ever introduced to Europe. Some ten years later Mr. H. Schréder, of 
Stratford Green, exhibited a plant before the Horticultural Society, not knowing it 
to be distinct from P. amabilis, but Dr. Lindley pointed out its differences in the 
Gardeners’ Chronicle the next season, and in its pages on January 15th, 1848, 
p- 39, will be found figures of these new plants, and with descriptions of the 
two species, the last named being P. grandiflora. Since this date, from time to 
time, we received a new species of Phalenopsis, and at last the grand P. 
Schilleriana, was introduced to English gardens by the then head of our firm, 
(Mr. B. 8. Williams), and a figure of the plant formed plate 1 of Warner's Select 
Orchidaceous Plants. Since this time the number of species and varieties have 
increased vastly, so that to have a full collection of all the Phalznopsis known would 
occupy a goodly space, and sitice we came by the knowledge of P. Schilleriana 
we have been made acquainted with numbers of forms, which lead one to suppose 
that many happy marriages have taken place between it and other kindred species. 
The plant of which we now produce a likeness in this place is a supposed result 
of a cross between P. amabilis and P. rosea, but from the faint silvery grey 
