PHALAENOPSIS. 6(33 



P. CORNU-CERVI, Blume ef Bclib.f.—k very pretty bulbloss Orcliid, whicli, 

 though not particularly showy in a small State, blooms very freely when grown 

 vigorously. The leaves are distichous leathery cuneate-oblong, 8 inches or more 

 in length, and of a bright green colour; the peduncles are lateral, erect, clavate, 

 flattened out towards the apex, where from six to twelve flowers are produced 

 in succession; the dorsal sepal is narrow lanceolate, the lateral ones slightly 

 falcate, the former greenish-yellow cross-barred with reddish-brown, and having 

 a wider blotch at the base, the latter with the outer halves only barred with 

 brown ; the petals are somewhat smaller, greenish-yellow with cross-bars of 

 brown; and the lip is whitish, clawed, hollowed on the disk, and incurved, 

 tripartite, the lateral divisions bluntly oblong, the intermediate one crescent- 

 shaped and apiculate. "This curious Orchid is found in abundance on the 

 stunted bushes in the swampy islands at the mouth of the river Irrawaddy. 

 In this situation being exposed to the sun during the dry season, it loses its 

 leaves, its roots being kept plump by the night dews, and it oonseqiiently has a 

 distinct resting season. Plants of the same Orchid growing in the shade have 

 no resting season, being a mass of blossom throughout th& dry season, and 

 losing none of their leaves. A generous treatment best suits this plant in 

 cultivation, and better flower-spikes are obtained by cutting back the old 

 flower-stems just before the resting season " (Major-Gen. Bmeric S. Berkeley, in 

 Gardeners' Chronicle, 1887). — Moulmein. 



Fig. — Bot. Mag., t. 5570 ; Batcm. Second Cent. Orch. PI., t. 178 ; Knld <5' liasselt, 

 Gen. it Sp. Orch.,t. 1. 



Svif. — PolycMlos conm -cerrL 



P. DENTICULATA, .Rc7i&. /.—According to Mr. Hugh Low, who flowered this 

 curious plant, it resembles T. Marine in growth. The sepals and petals are oblong 

 lanceolate, acute, white spotted with "broWn ; lip white, the front lobe strap- 

 shaped, concave, toothletted in front, keeled in the middle ; lateral lobes also 

 strap-shaped, toothletted and retuse outside, keeled transversely, light yellow 

 in front with three mauve lines. — Native country not stated. 



P. EQUESTRIS.-See P. rosea. 



P. ESMERALDA, Rchb.f. — Although not competing with some of the showier 

 kinds as regards the size of the blossoms, this species is nevertheless worthy of 

 cultivation on account of the attractive colouring of its flowers. The leaves are 

 oblong ligulate acute; and the flowers, which are produced on the usual lateral 

 scapes, and are about the size of those of P. eqiiesiris, from fifteen to twenty 

 in an erect raceme, have bluntly oblong se;f^ls and petals, and a three-lobed lip 

 of which the two largish lateral lobes are oblong divaricate, and the front lobe 

 is longer and linguiform; they are of a uniform brilliant amethyst colour, and 

 produced during the summer months. — Cochin China. 



Fig. — Floral Mag., 2nd ser., t. 358 ; Orchid Album, vii. t. 321 ; Lhiilenia, vi. t. 263 

 (var. candidula') ; Biit. Mag., t. 7196.. 



Syn. — P. Bcgnierlana. 



P. " F. L. AMES," Bolfe. — A handsome Phalaenopsis of hybrid origin, 

 being a cross between P. grandiflora and P. intermedia, raised by Mr. Seden. 

 The flowers have the general shape of those of P. grandiflora, and measure 

 nearly 3 inches across; the sepals are oblong lanceolate, white, the petals 



