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stems' arc erect, rather slender, upwards of IJ foot long, contracted towards the 

 base, and bearing near the top a few (eight or ten) lanceolate leaves 5 inches long 

 the racemes are terminal, on erect peduncles, 10 inches long, the flowers about 

 fifteen in number, 2 to 2J inches across, and brilliantly coloured ; the sepals are 

 oblong-ovate, 1 inch long, magenta with a whitish centre, the spur deep purple ; 

 the petals are rhomboid-obvate, over an inch broad, of a warm magenta-purple, 

 the lower half paler in the centre ; the lip intensely rich deep rosy-purple, 1 inch 

 long, acute, with the broad lateral lobes meeting over the column, its base forming 

 at the hinge a, second spur, and the front ■ lobe deflexed, magenta with maroon- 

 crimson veins, the throat rich maroon-crimson ; the veins of the throat are 

 thickened and covered with dark papillae. It flowers generally in autumn, but 

 we have frecjiiently seesn it in flower in .spring. — North Australia ; New Guinea; 

 Ti-mor. 



FiG.—Ornli/d Alhvm, iv. t. 187 ; Ganl. Chron., N.S.. 1886, xxvi. p. 556, f. 110 ; 

 Llndenia , vi. t. 280; MaichenhnoUia,. 2nd ser., i. t. 42; Bot. 3Iag.,t. 6817; Fitzgerald's 

 Australian Orchids, vol. i. ; Veitch's JIan. Orcli. PL, iii. p. 69. 



D. PHALAENOPSIS ALBUM, Hort.—A pure white variety, flowered by Mr. P. 

 McArthur, of Maida V^alo. The flowers are nearly 4 inches across ; lip very 

 broad; sepals and petals more rounded than in the type. The plant which 

 flowered produced two flower spikes, one with thirteen and the other with flfteen 

 flowers. We are informed by Dr. Gorton that the plant realised 150 guineas. 



D. PHALAENOPSIS, " Appleton variety." — A fine vai'iety was exhibited 

 before the Eoyal Horticultural Society, on October 24th, 1893, hj W. M. Appleton, 

 Esq., of Tyn-y^Coed, Weston-super-Mare. It has large flowers ; sepals and petals 

 white rosy -lilac at the extremities ; lip white, rich purple at the tip. 



D. PHALAENOPSIS DELLENSE, Hart— A lovely delicate variety, with pale 

 flowers ; sepals and petals white at the base, faintly suffused and veined towards 

 the apex with delicate rosy-magenta ; lip pale sulphur-yellow at the base, the mid- 

 lobe rosy-purple veined with .magenta-purple, side lobes white. It was first 

 flowered with Baron Sir J. H. W. Schroder, The Dell, Egham. — New Guinea. 



D. PHALAENOPSIS SCHRODERIANUM, JJorf.— This fine novelty was imported 

 by Messrs. F. Sander & Co. from North-east New Gruinea, and may be said to be a 

 geographical form of the original B. Phalaenopsia from North Australia which 

 was figured in the Orchid Album. This present variety is more robust in its 

 habit of growth than the Australian form, and the colour of the fiowers ranges 

 from pure white to a deep violet-purple. In some instances the sepals are white 

 and the petals deep violet-purple, which forms a beautiful contrast with the rich 

 colouring of the lip. It is a plant that should be grown in quantity, flowering 

 as it does in the autumn months,- it will be found very valuable. — Neiv Guinea. 



Yl&. — Gard. Cliron., ,Srd ser., 1891, x. p. 642, 1 89. p. 643, ff. 90, 91 ; Joiirn. of Ilort., 

 1891, xxiii. p. 325, 1 60 ; The Garden, 1893, xliii. p. 236 (plate). ' 



D, PHALAENOPSIS STATTERIANUM, Sander.— A beautiful variety with 

 flowers of a much deeper rosy-purple, and the lip of a different form to that of 

 the type, being narrower and having the side lobes shorter.-^.jrei« Guinea. 



Fig. — Rcirhenhachia, 2hd ser., i. t. 7. 



