PHALAINOPSIS STUARTIANA. 
[PLATE 237.] 
Native of the Philippine Islands. 
Epiphytal. Stem short, stout, producing flattened roots. Leaves few, persistent, 
very stout, fleshy, distichously-spreading, overlapping at the base, elliptic-oblong 
with a blunt point, the tip recurved so that they appear to be emarginate, the 
_ younger ones mottled with grey-green on a deep green ground, becoming when 
entirely of a deep unspotted green on the upper surface, and of a purplish-red beneath. 
Scape axillary or radical, slender, elongate, supporting a many-flowered drooping 
_ panicle, the branches of which are divaricate. Flowers spreading about two inches 
across and the same in depth, white, beautifully spotted in the lower half; sepals 
~ (dorsal) oblong-obtuse, an inch long, white with a few faint rosy dots at the base, 
the lateral ones ovate-acute with the upper base more produced, the front or inner 
surface above the median line white faintly dotted with pale. rose spots, below the 
central line pale yellow more heavily and closely marked by larger and more 
angular purple-crimson spots, the outer surface, especially of the lower half of 
the lateral sepals, having a creamy or greenish tinge ; petals obovate-cuneate, about 
an inch long and nearly as much in breadth, white with minute rosy dots near 
the base ; lip with an incurved terete claw, which is. white with rosy dots, two 
blunt obovate-oblong lateral lobes, which are yellowish-white spotted with purplish 
crimson, white and spotless at the tip partially spotted at the posterior side, and : 
a front lobe which from a narrow base expands into a roundish rhomboid limb, 
yellowish white spotted with purple-crimson, the front part narrowed, and divided 
beyond into a pair of faleate recurved arms, which are broadish in the central 
% part but narrowed to a point; between the lateral lobes are two flat oblong-cuneate 
_ __ rests, which are bright yellow spotted with red, and form a_ conspicuous part of 
| the flower. Column about half an inch long, terete, with two incurved lateral 
lobes on each side the stigma, and an acuminate rostellum lying between them. 
PHAL&NopsIS Sruarttana, Reichenbach fil., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, N.8., XV1., 
748, 753, fic. 140; JT Moore, Florist and Pomologist, 1882, 49, t. 559; Hooker 
Jil., Botanical Magazine, t. 6622; Williams, Orchid-Grower’s Manual, 6 ed., 537. 
The species of Phalenopsis here figured is a most distinct one and well worthy 
of extensive cultivation, for its white and spotted flowers produce a fine contrast, 
and its graceful branching inflorescence has a pleasing effect, so that it is really e 
_ Valuable addition to the genus. The plant was introduced by the Messrs. oh 
Co., of Clapton, and was named in compliment to Mr. Stuart Low, who has a 
the means of securing for our English cultivators many fine species of Orchids, in 
‘Steat quantity. There are several varieties of P. Stwartiana. Our drawing was. 
taken from a very fine specimen which carried a bran 
? length, bearing thirty-three expanded flowers of good size, and well coloured rn 
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