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oechid-grower's manual. 



this will probably account for it being more robust. It can in cultivation stand 

 a great deal more light than P. tetraspis, probably as much as any of the 



other Phalaenopsis" (Major-General E. S. 



Berkeley, in Oardeners' Chronicle, 1887). — 



Andaman Islands. 



Fig. — Orchid Album, ir. t. 158 ; Gard. 

 Chrm., U.S., 1882, xviii. p. 745, ffi. 130—132; 

 Id., 1886, xxvi. p. 277, f. 56 ; Seichenhachia, 

 ii. t. 51 ; Lindenia, vi. t. 288 ; VcHch's Man. 

 Orch. PL, vii. p. 38. 



P. SPECIOSA CHRISTIANA, Bchl. /.— 

 A very distinct and beautiful variety with 

 broader sepals and petals than in the type ; 

 the latter are white and the former rose- 

 madder. 



PHALAENOPSIS SPECIOSA. 



1 57. 



Fig. — Gard. Chron., N.S., 1886, xxvi. p. 277 



P. SPECIOSA IMPERATRIX, Hchl. /.—This variety is said to have larger 

 flowers than the type, of a deep rosy -purple colour. 



P. STUARTIANA, Uchh.f. — -A very distinct and strikingly beautiful species 

 of Phalaenopsis, introduced by Messrs. Low & Co., of Clapton, and named in com- 

 pliment to the late Mr. Stuart Low. In growth it resembles P. Bchilleriana, as 

 it does also in the shape of the flowers. The plant has flattened roots, and bears 

 oblong acute leaves, which are marbled when young, but become almost green 

 as they get older. The flowers are produced in large branching panicles, 

 and are about 2 inches across, with the anchor-like tips of the lip, as seen in 

 P. Bchilleriana ; the rhomboid petals and oblong upper sepal are pure white, 

 the lateral sepals are white on the upper side, and very pale sulphur on the lower 

 side, where they are thickly spotted with cinnamon-red, as is also the central 

 part of the lip, which has white edges and white horns. It flowers in the winter 

 months. — Philippine Islands. 



Fig. — Bot. Mag., t. 6622 ; Gard. Chron., N.s., xvi. pp. 748, 753, f . 149 ; Florist and 

 Pom., 1882, p. 49, t. 559 ; Orchid Alium, v. t. 237 ; ReicUenbaehia, i. t. i2 ; Veitch's Man. 

 'Oroh. PI., vii. p. 39. 



P. STUARTIANA BELLA, Rchb. /.—A distinct variety, having linear red 

 marking on the side laciniae ; lip large with large purplish-brown blotches on 

 the mid-lacinia. 



P. STUARTIANA HRUBYANA, Bahb.f.—A flue variety which has bloomed in 

 the collection of Baron von Hruby, Peckau, Bohemia. The sepals and petals are 

 purple at the back, with a broad white margin on the petals, and a narrow one 

 on the upper sepal, the inner border of the lateral sepals being also white. 



P. STUARTIANA NOBILIS, Pchh. /.—A superior variety of the type, re- 

 sembling P. Bchilleriana in the young growth, but assuming more the colour 

 of P. amahilis as it gains age. The under side of the leaves of this variety and 

 the flower scapes are of a deep reddish-purple ; the flowers are larger in all their 



