Tact ORCHID: REVIEW. 
VoL. XI.] NOVEMBER, 1903. (No. 131. 
THE HISTORY OF ORCHID CULTIVATION. 
(Continued from vol. x, page 304.) 
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SEVERAL interesting novelties were described and figured in the Gardeners 
Chronicle for 1848, and among them two species of Phalznopsis. P. grandi- 
flora (p. 39, fig. 1) was described as a Javan species, introduced by Messrs. 
Veitch, and it is remarked that ‘‘ a small plant of this noble epiphyte was. 
exhibited on the 7th of September in the last year by J. H. Schréder, Esq., 
of Stratford Green, when it received the Silver Banksian Medal. It was 
not supposed to be a distinct species at that time from the well-known 
Phalznopsis amabilis, but was regarded merely as a fine variety.” It is 
then pointed out how it differs from the Manila plant, and Lindley also 
alluded to notes by earlier authors, and the probability that other 
species remained to be discovered, but it is very curious that when 
he detected the differences between the Javan and Philippine plants 
he should have transposed the names, and originated a confusion 
which has hardly yet been completely rectified in gardens. As a matter 
of fact this plant is the type of the genus Phalznopsis, which was. 
established by Blume, in 1825, to include the Cymbidium amabile of Rox- 
burgh, and the Epidendrum amabile of Linnzus, the latter being described 
as long previously as 1753 (Sp. Pl., ed. 1, p. 953), being based on.a specimen 
collected by Osbeck on New Island, at the western extremity of Java, and 
sent to Linnzus. It appears to have been first discovered in the Island 
of Amboyna, by Rumphius, who gave a figure and description in his. 
Herbarium Amboinense, under the name of Angraecum album majus, as long 
previously as 1650. The name Phalenopsis amabilis is now very properly 
applied to the original plant, and the Philippine species so unfortunately 
confused with it is now known as P. Aphrodite. 
The second species of Phalenopsis mentioned above was P. rosea, which 
was figured and described (Gard. Chron., 1848, p. 671) as “a very unex- 
pected addition to the genus Phalenopsis, of which it has exactly the habit. 
The flowers are small, numerous, and arranged in a loose spike. The lip 
wants the tendrils so remarkable in P. amabilis and grandiflora, instead of 
