PHALANOPSIS GRANDIFLORA. 
[PLatE 277.] 
Native of Java. 
Epiphytal. This, like all other members of the genus, is quite destitute of 
pseudobulbs, but rises upon a short rooting stem. Leaves arranged in a two-ranked 
manner (distichous), broadly oblong, obtuse, keeled beneath, unequally notched at 
the apex, upwards of a foot in length, and from six to seven inches in breadth, 
thick and fleshy in texture and bright green in colour. Scape erect, arching, spring- 
ing from the base of the leaf, thickening upwards, greenish purple, furnished with a 
few distant, appressed, ovate-acuminate bracts, branching with age, and bearing many 
flowers (20 to 80). Individual flowers three to four inches in diameter, snow-white, 
Upper sepal oblong-obtuse; lateral sepals oblong-lanceolate; petals very broad, 
spreading, roundish-oblate, not overlapping the upper sepal, and quite destitute of 
the little point (mucro) which is such a prominent character in its near relative, 
P. amabilis. Lip very narrow, linear-hastate, shorter than the lateral sepals, side 
lobes obliquely wedge-shaped, with obtuse angles, and stained with deep yellow on 
the front edges; two long tendrils (cirrhi) which spring from the point of the lip 
are yellow and curled inwards. 
PHALENOPSIS GRANDIFLORA, Iindley, in Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1848, p. 39, with 
woodcut ; Botanical Magazine, t. 5184; Bateman’s Second Century of Orchids, t. 
114; L’Illustration Horticole, 1860, t. 19; Walpers’ Annales Botanices Systematice, 
v. 8, p. 851; Williams’ Orchid-Grower’s Manual, 6 ed., p. 529. 
This grand Orchid was named by Dr. Lindley in 1848, it had, however, been 
exhibited in flower the year previous by J. Schréder, Esq., late of Stratford 
Green, at which time it was supposed to be a fine variety only of fh amabilis. 
We well remember this plant being first shown, and the excitement it caused in the 
horticultural world; the plant in question had been imported from Java, and was 
identical with the form which we here represent. Another variety which is found 
in Borneo, known as P. grandiflora aurea, is easily distinguished by its greenish 
yellow flower stems, whereas the Java plant invariably has its flower stems tinged 
with purple, its flowers are also considerably larger and more numerous; moreover, 
we believe it to be far more robust in constitution. As an example of the 
floriferousness of this plant, we may mention that we have ourselves exhibited it 
with as many as seventy and eighty flowers upon one plant, - the scapes 
Which were held some years ago in the gardens of the Royal Horticultural ag! at 
Chiswick, and also in the gardens of the Royal Botanic Society mm the Regent . a 
and the same specimen was exhibited for several years successively, bearing a 4 
the same number of flowers, As may readily be imagined the plant was strong én 
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