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of greyish-white on the upper side, the under 
surface purple. The flowers are large, sepals 
and broader petals light rose-purple, whitish 
at the margins, the lateral sepals dotted with 
purple on the inner basal halves ; the lip, 
which is three lobed, with rounded lateral 
lobes, and an oval central one, split at the end 
into a pair of divergent curved horns, is of 
the same colour with darker spots, the disk 
bearing a four-cornered callus, which is yellow 
spotted with reddish-brown. 
The flower 
spikes, 
which are 
produced in 
summer, 
often attain 
gigantic 
proportions. 
Mr. Warner 
sent a speci- 
men to the 
St. Peters- 
burg Exhi- 
b i t i o n m 
1869, which 
had 120 
e X pa nded 
blooms 
upon it. The 
Gar dcnrrs' 
CJironiclc in 
1 8; 5 gave 
an illustra- 
tion of a 
plant which 
flowered in 
the garden 
of Lady Ashburton at Melchet Court ; it bore 
three panicles of flowers, bearing respectively 
96, 108 and 174 blossoms, making a total of 
378. At the meeting of the Royal Horticul- 
tural Society on January 24th, 1905, the Right 
Hon. Lord Rothschild sent a photograph of a 
magnificent plant of this species which had a 
panicle of seven primary branches and 1 1 
secondary, with 88 expanded flowers and 11 
buds. The two longest leaves were 15^ ins. 
long by 5i broad. The plant was pur- 
chased at the Burton Constable Sale in 
P. Aphrodite 
1 88 1, and has flowered freely ever since. 
Phalcenopsis violacea. A distinct and 
richly coloured species, which has large broad 
bright green leaves, and very short peduncles. 
The flowers measure about two inches or 
more in diameter : the lower portions of the 
sepals and petals and the lip are a rich rosy- 
purple with the upper portions yellow. The 
colouring is quite unique, and the flowers, 
which are deliciously scented, are produced 
during the summer months. There are several 
V e r )' fine 
varieties of 
this species, 
one of which 
is named 
B owrin g- 
iana, and 
has yellow 
flowers, 
w i t h a 
]5 u r p 1 e 
blotch at 
the base of 
the lateral 
sepals, the 
bases of the 
upper sepal 
and petals 
being band- 
ed with the 
same col- 
our. 
Phalcenop- 
sis leucor- 
r Ji 0 d a. A 
natural 
hybrid be- 
tween P. ApJirndiic y-P . Schillcriana, found 
in the Philippine Islands. The foliage is 
green, often marbled with grey, but the spots 
are not so distinct as those in P. Schiller iana ; 
the sepals and petals are white, the lateral 
sepals spotted with purple inside at the base, 
and the petals tinged towards the base with 
rose ; the side lobes of the lip white, spotted 
with red-purple and stained with yellow on 
the front margins ; the front lobe white, 
stained basally with yellow. It usually blooms 
in the winter season. 
