PHALANOPSIS SANDERIANA. 
[PLaTE 209. | 
Native of the Eastern Archipelago. 
Epiphytal. Stems very short, producing above a tuft of bold two-ranked leaves, 
an low a few stout fleshy roots. Leaves few, oblong-ligulate narrowed towards 
the overlapping base, apiculate, of thick fleshy texture, dark green, marked on the 
upper surface with silvery gray. Scape issuing from the stem below or between 
the leaves, stoutish, of a purplish brown, bearing a drooping raceme. Flowers about 
three inches in breadth, the parts spreading, the tint of colour very charming ; 
sepals (dorsal) oblong-obtuse, narrowed at the base, about one and a-half inch long, 
and three-fourths of an inch broad, of a very delicate mauve or peach colour, the 
lateral ones obliquely ovate-oblong, shortly acute, the basal margin on the lower 
(broader) side undulato-recurved, and of a paler hue, almost white; petals subrotund 
obtuse, the base cuneate, one-and-a-half inch long, and about an inch and five-eighths 
broad, of the same delicate tint as the sepals; Jip scoop-shaped distinctly clawed, 
three-lobed, the two broad rounded or semi-ovate blunt entire lateral lobes concave 
and curved upwards so as to meet over the column, marked outside with two short 
purple blotches, and having the lower edge narrowly bordered with yellow, the front 
lobe three-fourths of an inch long, hastate, curved upwards at the point, the basal 
angles one-fourth of an inch long, and the apex parted into two divergent curved 
filiform processes an inch long, while from the disk opposite the side lobes rises 
a two-parted oblong crest, rounded or bluntly toothed at one end—horse-shoe shaped 
according to Reichenbach—white below, yellowish at the apex, spotted with rich 
brown; the side lobes are creamy white, their discal portion spotted with mauve- 
purple, and their lower - border yellow, the front lobe white, streaked with purple 
along the centre. Column short, terete, white, with a short mauve-tinted beak, 
the operculum with a cordate appendage over the stigmatic hollow. 
PuHaeyopsts Sanpertana, Reichenbach fil., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, N.8., XIX., 
656; Williams, Orchid-Grower’s Manual, 6 ed., 535; L’Orchidophile, 1883, 661. 
Of late years the Phalznopsids have come very much into favour amongst Orchid 
cultivators, and deservedly so, as they hold a prominent place among the most 
charming of the Eastern species of this aristocratic race. Their large graceful branching 
racemes of flowers are strikingly beautiful, especially when mingled with foliage plants 
and ferns. They are sometimes called Moth Orchids, owing to the resemblance 
presented by their flowers to moths on the wing. 
The drawing from which the annexed plate was prepared was- taken from a plant 
in the well-known collection of G. W. Law-Schofield, Esq., New-Hall-Hey, Rawtenstall, 
near Manchester. We have also received flowers of a darker variety from Mr. Hill, 
gardener to Lord Rothschild, Tring Park, Tring. : 
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