THE ORCHID WORLD. 
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cirrhi are yellow, not 
white." Tlunking- he 
had described a new 
species, he called the 
plants P. grandifiora, 
quite forgetting that 
this species had 
already been named 
P. atnablis by Dr. 
Blume. 
In 1862 Reichen- 
bach detected Lind- 
ley's error, and stated 
that these plants 
were the same as P. 
aniablis. He also 
mentioned that the 
plants from the Phil- 
ippine Islands, which 
had now been proved 
to be a distinct 
species, had never 
been named, and 
therefore proposed to 
call them P. Aphro- 
dite, which is the 
Greek name for 
Venus, the goddess 
of beauty. 
Great difficulty was 
formerly met with in 
packing the plants in 
a correct manner to 
ensure them being 
found alive on reach- 
ing this country ; this 
has now been over- 
come by establishing 
the collected plants on small pieces of wood, 
which are then placed in packing boxes in such 
a way that no two plants touch each other. 
Our illustrations show the method of doing 
this in Java, from which island a fine variety 
of amablis is now imported under the name 
Phalcenopsis amablis Riniesindiana. 
The culture of the various species of 
Phalaenopsis is not difficult so long as their 
requirements are fully looked after. In their 
native home the temperature is very high, 
and although the plants are frequently found 
P. leucorrhoda . 
on bare rocks and the branches of trees, the 
atmosphere is always in a very moist con- 
dition, and large quantities of rain fall during 
the year. 
It must always be remembered that the 
plants have no pseudobulbs to support them, 
and consequently they should never be really 
dry, for if water is withheld the plants shrivel 
and there is great risk of them losing their 
lower leaves, and much of the beauty of these 
plants depends on the leaves as well as the 
flowers. 
