ats 
i 
on 
with purplish wine-colour, which is slightly indicated along the upper edge 
PHALANOPSIS CASTA. 
[PLATE 229. ] 
_ Native of the Philippine Islands: a supposed natural hybrid. 
Epiphytal. —Stex 
piphytal. em short, stout, producing roundish somewhat flattened roots, 
é ei which 5 1 
asely Neha ‘ ear nae Leaves few, thick, fleshy, distichously-spreading, alter- 
ping, oblong obtuse, emarginate, in the young state lightly mottled 
h 
as in P. llerva: i 
Schilleriana but in age becoming deep green and spotless, tinted beneat 
Scape 
basilar or axi 
fae ee sos green supporting a drooping raceme of several large 
ers white, spotted with crimson on the lip, the base of the 
dorsal 
“dorsal ‘ee hy ee faintly tinged with rosy purple; sepals oblong obtuse, the 
and a half long, the more obtuse apiculate lateral ones, which 
are direct : 
ed downwards somewhat shorter, and spotted at the base; petals roundish 
Bae with a& narrow or 
owed 
cuneate base, somewhat concave, an inch and three-fourths in 
breadth and - : 
deep, ot fhe. same in length; dip about an inch across and an inch 
Mittidioblonc cc x crimson towards the centre, . three-lobed, having a pair of 
ths “ag e basal lobes which are tinted with yellow at the lower edge 
: arked with three or four small oblong transverse crimson ai 
and having ; 
g also a triangular-hastate front lobe which is furnished on each side at 
ie ong the hinder margin with deep red, otherwise white. 
ex 
with a short reflexed tendril, and is spotted down the central line, and 
The callus is the 
same as in P 1 
) . amabilis (Aphrodite). Column short, white, decurved. 
ee Aone 
-..., which is worth noticing. 
| ds 
acicly, Py Ns surpass the three large-flowered species which were first introduced, 
ine o oe amabilis, P. grandiflora, 
; e distinct in the colour both of its flowers and foliage. 
— Iheritorio 
om “at sai of the same class introduced. 
Weeks in a i. as their flowers are of long duration, 
Piles ac hernia condition. There are no Orchids that 
and when ais » hor such a number of flowers, with so small an 
| L -grown the leaves and plants are 
PHALANO 
es PSIS casta, Reichenbach fil., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, .S., hi., 590; 
» Orchid-Growers’ Manual, 6 ed., 528. 
The genu : | 
ao a : x = now illustrate is becoming much more abundant in specific forms. 
ew years ago; and our collectors are still diligently searching for the 
2 ° beautiful i 
Species that abound in their native habitats, where the flowers get hybridised 
by the j h fe in. which 
insects Thi o many fresh forms 
. S accounts for our receiving so y a ich, 
althou 
oh som . aye : : 
€ are very slightly different in their colour and spotting, there is yet 
We may indeed remark that there are not 
and P. Schilleriana, the last-named 
All these produce 
It gives us great pleasure to see other 
They form a grand feature in 
lasting with care for some 
produce such graceful 
amount of foliage ; 
in themselves objects of beauty. 
. 
rand spikes of blossom when well grown. 
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