very ornamental character, but when the blooms are expanded its appearance is quite 
exquisite. It is a plant which requires good drainage, and should be potted in 
the same manner and in the same soil as P. Wallichii, P. grandifolius, and the 
other terrestrial species, viz., in a mixture of good loam and peat. During the 
growing season it enjoys an abundance of heat. We have kept it in the East 
Indian house, but we expect -to find, as we become better acquainted with it, 
that it will withstand a cooler regimen with impunity during the resting 
season. 
PHALANOPsIS EsMERALDA.—This is a very pretty plant from Cochin China, 
which we have already figured in this work, on Pl. 321. We recently received a fine 
spike and several single flowers of a paler shade of colour from Mr. Appleton, an 
amateur grower living at Tyn-y-Coed, Weston-super-Mare. The sender appears to 
think that one of the pale ones is a distinct form, because the flowers are more 
spreading, but this would appear to arise from the side lobes of the lip being 
flatter. We cannot, however, perceive any material difference in them. It is a beautiful 
little species, which although not so effective or showy as many others of this 
fine family, is yet well deserving the attention of every one having suitable 
accommodation for it—W. H. G 
