PHALANOPSIS ROSEA. 
[Plate 268.] 
Native of the Philippine Islands. 
Epiphytal. Stems very short, producing greenish fleshy roots, and a tuft of 
bold distichous leaves from the crown. Leaves clliptic-oblong acute, keeled beneath, 
the tip recurved, and having a sheathing base, persistent, coriaceous, eight to ten 
inches long, and of a bright green colour. Scape lateral, ascending from between 
the lower leaves, deep reddish purple, furnished with distinct ovate acute green 
bracts, and terminating in a spreading panicle, of which the rachis is flexuose 
towards the apex. Flowers nearly one and a half inch across, numerous, very elegant ; 
sepals spreading, the dorsal one narrow oblong obtuse tapered to the base, seven to 
eight lines long, the lateral ones smaller, all of them white, flushed with pale rose 
along the centre, especially near their base; petals broader roundish ovate, spreading, 
coloured similarly to the sepals; Jip ascending, three-lobed, the lateral lobes linear- 
Spathulate oblique, incurved, rosy purple outside, and streaked with purple lines 
within, the middle lobe ovate acuminate, half an inch long, of a rich rosy 
purple colour, paler at the edges, the sides reflexed, the disk white spotted with 
purple, bearing a thin concave lunate crest. 
PHALANOPSIS ROSEA, Lindley, Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1848, 671, _with woodeut 
figure; Jd., in Paston’s Flower Garden, ii., t. 72; Hooker, Botanical Magazine, 
t. 5212; Lemaire, Jardin Fleuriste, iii, t. 283; Jennings, Orchids, t. 27.; Van 
Houtte, Flore des Serres, t. 1645. | 
_ _PHALa&Nopsis EQUESTRIS, Reichenbach fil.. in Linnea (1849), xxi, 864: — Id., 
in Walpers’ Annales Botanices Systematice, vi., 860; Id., Xenia Orchidacea, ii., 4. 
STAUROGLOTTIS EQUESTRIS, Schauer, in Novorum Actorum Academie Nature 
Curiosorum, xix., suppl. i, 432. 
Phalenopsis rosea was first introduced, in 1848, by the late Mr. Thomas Lobb 
from Manilla, and since that time it has never been imported in wd large 
‘quantity ; in fact, one seldom sees it in any but large collections. This is to be 
Wondered at, as when crown well, its free-branching many-flowered spikes come in 
aS a pleasing contrast to those of the larger-flowered kinds. . | 
The sketch from which our plate was prepared was taken from a —— 
Plant in the collection of P. Lloyd, Esq., Loughton, Essex, where the Phalenopsids 
and other Orchids are well cultivated by Mr. Daniels, the gardener, who is 
remarkably successful with this particular class. : di 
In its manner of growth BP. rosea bears much resemblance to P. gran sit 
but the leaves are shorter and narrower, six to eight inches long, and of neg ‘ 
‘green colour. The flowering stem or scape is from a foot to 4 foot and ms - 
tength, ascending, and, in good specimens, much branched and many -blossom 
