THE ORCHID REVIEW. 209 
A GROUP OF PHALANOPSIS. 
Our present illustration represents a very interesting little group of Phale- 
nopsis, two of the figures representing well-known Philippine species, the 
others forms of the natural hybrid which is occasionally found where the 
two former grow together. 
P. Aphrodite (Fig. 20) is the one so frequently cultivated under the 
erroneous name of P. amabilis, owing to Lindley’s unfortunate mistake of 
first identifying it with the Malayan plant of that name and then re-describing 
the latter as P. grandiflora, though now that the mistake has been corrected 
in the books there seems a possibility of the right names being adopted. It 
MORGAN EKIO0 
Fig. 20. PHALNOPSIS APHRODITE. Fig. 21. P. SCHILLERIANA. 
Fig. 22. P, x LEUCORRHODA. Fig. 23. P. xX L. X VAR. CYNTHIA. 
was introduced by Cuming as long ago as 1837, and, as is well known, has 
green leaves and white flowers, with thread-like tendrils in front of the lip 
(unfortunately the tendrils are not shown in the photograph, the apex of the 
lip in this species being usually inflexed, and thus lost in the white ground). 
P. Schilleriana (Fig. 21) did not appear until 1858, when it was intro- 
duced by the late Consul Schiller, of Hamburg. It has leaves beautifully 
marbled with grey and dull green, and rose-coloured flowers with anchor- 
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