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THE ORCHID WORLD. 



[November, 191 3. 



French traveller, named Porte, brought two 

 more plants from the Philippine Islands, after 

 which thirteen years elapsed before a further 

 addition was made by Messrs. Low and Co. 

 Lindley was the first to state that this plant 

 might be a natural hybrid between P. 

 Aphrodite and P. rosea, and in 1886 Seden 

 proved him correct by flowering P. intermedia 

 which he had j^roduced by crossing these 

 two species. 



Phal.ENOPSIS MACULATA. — Introduced 

 from Sarawak, in Borneo, in 1880, through 

 Curtis, by whom it was discovered growing 

 on the limestone hills at an altitude of 1,000 

 to 1,500 feet, on damp, almost bare rocks, 

 under the shade of trees. It is one of the 

 smallest of the genus, the flowers being little 

 more than half-an-inch m diameter. 



Phal.5:N0PSIS Ma RLE.— Discovered by 

 Burbidge when in the Sulu Archipelago in 

 1878, and dedicated by him to his wife. It 

 was subsequently detected by David Burke 

 on the hills near the south-east coast of the 

 island of Mindanao, plentiful on the trunks 

 and branches of trees m dense shade. 



Phal.-ENOPSIS rosea. — Introduced from 

 Manila through Thomas Lobb m 1848. One 

 of the commonest of the Philippine Island 

 Phalaenopses, and is found m abundance in 

 the hot valleys and along the streams in the 

 neighbourhood of Manila. 



Phal.enopsis VIOLACEA.— Originally dis- 

 covered by Teijsman near Pelambang, in 

 Sumatra, in 1859, and sent by him to the 

 Botanic Garden at Leyden, where it first 

 flowered in Europe in 1861. Nothing more 

 was heard of the plant until Mr. Murton, of 

 the Botanic Garden at Singapore, sent plants 

 to Mr. W. H. Williams, of Tredrea, in Cornwall, 

 and to Chelsea, in both of which establish- 

 ments it flowered in 1878. It remained rare 

 in European collections until 1880, when 

 Curtis sent a consignment from Sumatra. 



PleiONE HUMILIS.— Originally discovered 

 by Dr. Buchanan Hamilton, and afterwards 

 by Griffiths, this plant was first introduced 

 into British Gardens in j 849 through Thomas 

 Lobb, who found it at Sanahda on the Khasia 

 Hills. The lip is beautifully frin-T-ed, and the 

 flowers vary much in colour. 



Pleione lagenaria. — Introduced through 

 Thomas Lobb, w'ho sent plants from the 

 Khasia Hills, Northern India, to Exeter in 

 1849. It has always been a favourite with 

 amateurs on account of its beautiful flowers 

 freely produced in the autumn months. 



RenanthERA MATUTINA. — First dis- 

 covered by Blume in 1824, growing on trees 

 at the foot of Mount Salak, Java, from which 

 locality it was introduced twenty years later 

 through Thomas Lobb. 



Spathoglottis AUREA. — Originally intro- 

 duced in 1849 from Mount Ophir in Malacca 

 through Thomas Lobb, who discovered it 

 growing near Nepenthes sanguinea. Only a 

 few plants arrived, and these gradually died 

 out after once flowering. Nothing more 

 appears to have been heard of it in a living 

 state until 1886, when it was offered for sale 

 at Stevens' rooms. 



Thunia Benson I .E. — Discovered by 

 Colonel Benson in the neighbourhood of 

 Rangoon in 1866, and flowered for the first 

 time in this country in the Royal Gardens, 

 Kew, and Chelsea in July, 1867. 



Vanda Bensoni. — This Vanda was sent 

 to Messrs. Veitch by Colonel Benson, who 

 discovered it in Lower Burmah in 1866. It 

 flowered shortly after its arrival at Chelsea in 

 the summer of the same year. 



Vanda CCERULEA. — Although originally 

 discovered by William Griffith, m November, 

 1837, it is interesting to note that Thomas 

 Lobb sent home plants from the Khasia Hills 

 to Exeter, where one of them flowered for 

 the first time in December, 1850. 



Vanda coerulescens. — This was also 

 discovered by Griffith, who collected speci- 

 mens of the plants, but nothing more appears 

 to have been heard of the plant until Benson 

 re-discovered it in 1867, and sent plants the 

 following year to Chelsea, where it flowered 

 for the first time in February, i86g. 



Vanda Denisoniana. — Discovered by 

 Colonel Benson on the Arracan Mountains, 

 and sent to Chelsea in 1868, where it flowered 

 for the first time in England, April, 18C0. 



Vanda Hooker ian a. — This superb 

 Orchid was seen by several travellers, 

 including Thomas Lobb, and was known in 



