DENDROBIUM PHALANOPSIS. 
[PLatEe 187. ] 
Native of North Australia. 
Epiphytal. Stems erect, slender, terete contracted below, one-and-a-half to two 
feet long. Leaves five inches long, chiefly produced near the apex of the stem, dis- 
tichous, lanceolate, the apex obliquely acute, the base sheathing. Peduwncles terminal, 
erect, ten inches long, supporting a raceme of about fifteen blossoms. Flowers 
large, two-and-a-half to three inches across, brilliantly coloured; dorsal sepal oblong 
mucronulate from a wide base, magenta at the edges, whitish down the centr é: 
lateral sepals ovate pointed, broad and laterally produced at the base, so as to 
form a short stout chin, and having also a spur nearly half an inch long, mottley 
magenta and white, the chin and spur deep purple, otherwise the exterior of 
sepals almost white; petals well displayed and very effective, roundish ovate, cuneate 
at the base, one- -and-a-half inch long, one-and-a-quarter inch broad, deep magenta, 
paler half way up the centre; lip “flexed from the chin, so as to sit close in 
between the petals, three- lobed, the basal lobes large, erect, roundish, overarching 
the column, deep rosy purple, the front lobe deflexed, half an inch broad, -magenta 
with deeper veins of rosy purple, flushed with maroon over the whole surface, the 
throat rich maroon crimson, the veins thickened and covered with dark papille, 
and there being a pair of rounded ridges inside the chin. Column short, rosy, 
keeled at the back and broadly winged at the sides; anther-case white. 
Denpropium PHALanopsis, Pitzgerald, Gardeners’ Chronicle, N.8., xiv., 38. 
We are delighted to be able to place in our Album a figure of one of the 
most beautiful of Dendrobes, belonging to the bigibbum section, and which we 
consider to be one of the best introductions of late years. It is a very rare plant, 
of which we have only seen two examples in blossom, one of which is the original 
of our present illustration, the drawing for which was taken from a specimen in the — 
fine collection -of W. Lee, Esq., Downside, Leatherhead, where it bloomed in the 
autumn of last year, under the care of Mr. Woolford. 
This Dendrobium Phalenopsis is partly evergreen. The flowers are similar in 
form to those of D. bigibbum, although much larger, as will be seen by a com- 
parison of our present figure with that of D. bigibbum in our first volume (Plate 
28). It produces numerous flowers in an upright terminal raceme, the flowers being 
bold in character, the sepals of a pale magenta, with a whitish centre, the petals 
of a warm magenta-purple, and the lip rich rosy purple, with maroon-crimson veins. 
Tt flowers during the spring months, and remains some time in beauty. 
