RENANTHERA STORIEI. 
[Puate 513. | 
Vative of the Philippine Islands. 
Epiphytal. Stems stout, ascending, ten to twelve feet high, furnished with 
alternate leaves which are elliptic-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, deep green, somewhat 
fleshy, unequally bluntly bi-lobed at the apex, from eight to ten inches long. 
Scape about twelve inches long, branched, many-flowered, nodding, produced opposite 
the leaves, peduncle stout, vinous red. Flowers about two and a-half inches across 
the vertical diameter; Jower sepals sub-connate, broadly ovate, obtuse clavate, of 
a light crimson, spotted and barred transversely with rich deep velvety crimson ; 
dorsal sepal and petals obovate-lanceolate, acute, bright orange spotted with crimson ; 
lip small, three-lobed, provided beneath with a small conical spur, at the mouth 
of which are two quadrate lamellae; mid-lobe ligulate-acute, deep crimson, greenish 
yellow at the base; lateral lobes triangular, orange-yellow striped with deep crimson, 
margined with a darker shade of the same colour. Column terete, rich deep velvety 
crimson. : 
RenantHera Srorter, H. G. Reichenbach, Gardeners’ Chronicle, new series, 1880, 
xiv., p. 296. Williams’ Orchid Grower's Manual, 7th edition, p. 694 
_ Renanthera is a small genus closely allied to Vanda, containing but few species, 
mostly of scandent habit, found chiefly in tropical Asia and the Malay Archipelago. 
Our present subject is one of the handsomest plants belonging to this genus, 
growing to a height of twelve feet, and having distichous fleshy leaves eight to ten 
inches long. It has a large many-flowered branching inflorescence which carries from 
fifty to sixty flowers. The sepals and petals are dark orange, the lower sepals 
broad, brilliant velvet-crimson, shaded with a lighter tint of the same colour. The 
lip is small, deep crimson, with yellow bars and a white centre. 
Renanthera Storiei flowered in September, 1894, in the Victoria and Paradise 
Nurseries, and was much admired by all who saw it, the handsome spike of orange- 
Scarlet flowers standing out well among the other species of Wanda and other East 
Indian Orchids which were in flower at the same time. It is named in compliment 
to Mr. James G. Storie. 
We have found this plant do best in a pot, as, being of stout erect habit and 
a tall grower, when suspended it soon reaches the glass. St should be potted in 
sphagnum moss with a good supply of drainage ; it requires the temperature of 
_ East India house, and an abundant supply of water during the growing season. 
This plant should have all the light attainable, but be shaded from the burning 
rays of the sun. 
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