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oblong acute, white, beautifully barred with amethyst in the lower half, and 

 with cinnamon-brown in the upper half; the lip is three-lobed, the lateral lobes 



ligulate bidentate, pale pur- 

 plish, and the middle lobe 

 oblong, of a rich deep violet. 

 It flowers at different times of 

 the year, and lasts in bloom 

 for two months. This species 

 produces young plant* on the 

 flower spikes more freely than 

 any other kind. — Philippine 

 Islands. 



PHALABNOPSIS LUDDEMANNI ANA . 



Fig.— -Bot. Mag., t. 5523; 

 Batem. Second Cent. Oroli. PI., 

 t. 133 ; Florist and Pomelogist, 

 1865, p. 257, t. 25i; Flore des 

 Sevres, t. 1636 ; Rev. Hort., 1872, 

 p. 390, with tab. ; Lindenia, ii. 

 t. 94 ; Id., viii: t. 366 ; Veiteh's 

 Man. Orch. K., vii.p. 30. 



P. LUDDEMANNIANA 

 OCHRACEA, Garriere. — In this 

 variety the flowers have the 

 sepals and petals of a pale 

 yellowish-rose barred with pale brown, thus forming a distinct and pretty com- 

 panion to the original brighter-coloured P. Liiddemanniana. — Philippine Islands. 

 'FiG.—Rcv. Sort., 1872, p. 390, with tab. 



P. MANNII, Rohh. f. — ^A very pretty species, rather near to P. comu-cervi, 

 with oblong-ligulate acute leaves, a span to a foot long, green, with a violet 

 edge and many violet spots near the base ; the flowers are numerous (thirteen 

 or more), in deflexed racemes, with the stalks scarcely winged ; they are about 

 2 inches in diameter, the oblong-ligulate sepals, and smaller linear-falcate petals 

 honey yellow, conspicuously blotched and spotted 

 with rich brown ; the lip is very singular, the lateral 

 lobes being erect ligulate retuse, whitish streaked 

 with purple, and- the whitish central lobe crescent- 

 shaped and fringed. — Assam. 



P. MARIAE, Burbidge. — This elegant dwarf- 

 habited species resembles P. sumatrana in its 

 manner of growth, and its flowers are also similar in 

 form to those of that plant. The leaves are deflexed, 

 distichous, ligulate acute, glossy, and obscurely 

 striate; the flowers grow in a lateral drooping 

 raceme, and are about 1| inch across ; the oblong 

 bluntish sepals and the somewhat broader petals 

 are white, each marked with about six bold trans- 

 verse bars of chestnut -brown, the basal blotches being amethyst; the lip, which 

 has the middle lobe obovate oblong apiculate, convex, and plane, not pilose, iS 



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