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duces its f^racoful racemes of flowers nearly all the year round. The large 

 thick elliptic-lanceolate obliquely retuse leaves form a distichous tvift, and fi'om. 

 their axils proceed the long drooping racemes of spreading flowers, which are 

 each 3 inches across, and arranged in a distichous manner along the rachis ; the 

 elliptic-ovate sepals and the broad sub-rhomboidal petals are pure white, the lip 

 of the same colour, but beautifully streaked and spotted inside with rose-pink 

 and yellow, shorter than the sepals, three-lobed, the side lobes ascending 

 petaloid, the central lobe hastate, bearing at the extremity two incurved twisted 

 cirrhi. The flowers continue in perfection a long time, if they are kept free from 

 damp, but if allowed to get wet they are apt to become spotted. There are many 

 varieties of this fine species. — Java, Amhoyna ; Philippine Islands. 



Fig.— But. Mag ., t. 4297 ; Bot. Reg ., 1838, t. 34 ; Blume, TabelUn, t. 44 ; Id ., MumpUa, 

 tt. 194, 199 ; Flore des Serres,t. 36 ; Moore, III, Oroli. PI. {Phalaenopsis), t. 1 ; Bennett, 

 Fl. Jac, t. 8 ; Maioul, Botanist, iil. t. 133 ; Paxton, Mag. Bot., vii. p. 49, with tab. ; 

 Lindcnia, ii.t. 79 ; Purae liort. Beige, 1890, p. 25, t. 3 ; Veiteh's Man. Oreli. PI., vii. p. 22. 



Si'X.— P. Aphrodite. 



P. AWABILIS DAYANA, Sort— A. very beautiful and distinctly marked 

 variety, named in compliment to the late John Day, Esq., of Tottenham, by 

 whom it was first flowered. It has very large flowers, of which the two lower 

 sepals are thickly but distinctly dotted with carmine over about half their 

 surface ; and the lip has the side lobes coloured deep yellow at the lower edge, 

 and the central trowel-shaped or hastate lobe heavily marked with carmine- 

 crimson aci'o.ss the base, having a distinct stripe of the same colour down its 

 centre. — Eastern Archipelago. 



Fig. — Orchid Aliiim, i. t. 11. 



P. AMABILIS GRANDIFLORA See P. grandiflora. 



P, AMETHYSTINA, Bchh.f. — An elegant little plant, perhaps the dwarfest 

 of Phalaenojjsids, which, though not so showy as some of its congeners, is yet a 

 nice addition to this beautiful and popular family. The plant is furnished with 

 dark-coloured flattened roots, and the leaves are cuneate-obovate acute, striated, 

 3 to 4 inches long, stout, waved at^the edges, and dark green ; the scape is about 

 a foot long, sometimes with a few short branches, and bears several rather small 

 flowers, the sepals and petals white, spreading, and the lip white, tinged with 

 yellow at the base, the centre part rich amethyst suffused with purple, three- 

 lobed, the lateral lobes wedge-shaped, the central one rhombiform with two small 

 cirrhi at its base, and deeply emarginate in front ; the flower is prolonged at the 

 back into a short spur. — Sunda Isles. 



¥iG.— Gard. Chron., 1870, p. 1731, f. 299 ; Pwydt, Les Orch., p. 224, f. 226—7. 



P. AMPHITRITE, Krdndin. — This new hybrid is, according to Dr. Kriinzlin, 

 a cross between P. Stuartiana and P. Sanderiana. " The size of the flower is 

 that of a very good P. Stuartiana or a smaller P. Sanderiana ; the sepals are 

 narrower than in P. Sanderiana, pale mauve, or deep nankeen yellow, with a 

 white margin and a purplish hue at the base, the lateral ones spotted with 

 minute purple blotches at the very base; the petals are also in the way of 

 P. Sanderiana, white, with a rose-purple blotch at the base ; the lip is perhaps 

 still more than the other parts that of P. Sanderiana, in the form as well as in 

 the colour." — Garden hyhrid. 



