This graceful species is a native of Moulmein, where it was discovered by 
the Rev. C. S. P. Parish. It was introduced to Europe by Messrs. Low and Son, 
of Clapton, in whose establishment it flowered for the first time in 1861. It was 
described, together with many other new Orchids, by Prof. Reichenbach, who 
at that time paid a visit to this horticultural establishment. The description was 
published in the Botanische Zeitung for 1862. As it is said with reason in the 
Botanical Magazine , if for size and purity of white in its flowers Phalaenopsis 
Lowii must give precedence to the magnificent P. amabilis , in return, it sur¬ 
passes this by the extreme delicacy of tint of the perianth. 
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months, but this long voyage is less fatal to Odontoglots than the journey from 
Honda to Barranquilla, during which they are almost constantly exposed to a 
tropical heat. This is the time when they suffer most, and a certain number 
of the plants are generally found in a State of putréfaction when they arrive at 
the coast. 
“ We see how much time and expense of ail kinds are entailed in the work 
of collecting, of which diffîculties amateurs who make their first attempts with 
this admirable Orchid, are not aware. It is certainly astonishing that the prices 
charged are so reasonable when the demand is so large; but they will gradually 
become more expensive, for it is easy to foresee that a révolution is very near, 
because Odontoglossum Alexandrae is becoming more and more rare, and soon it 
will be impossible to flnd any. 
This beautiful novelty is now in the celebrated collections of M. G. Warocqué, 
of Mariemont. 
