. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. PHALABNOPSIS LUDDEMANNIANA. Fig.—-Bot. Mag., t. 5523; Batem. Second Cent. Oroli. PI., t. 133 ; Florist and Pomelogist, 1865, p. 257, t. 25i; Flore des Sevres, t. 1636 ; Rev. Hort., 1872, p. 390, with tab.; Lindenia, ii. t. 94 ; Id., viii: t. 366 ; Veiteh's Man. Orch. K., 30. P. LUDDEMANNIANA OCHRACEA, Garriere.—In this variety the flowers have the sepals and petals of a pale yellowish-rose barred with pale brown, thus forming a distinct and pretty co
. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. PHALABNOPSIS LUDDEMANNIANA. Fig.—-Bot. Mag., t. 5523; Batem. Second Cent. Oroli. PI., t. 133 ; Florist and Pomelogist, 1865, p. 257, t. 25i; Flore des Sevres, t. 1636 ; Rev. Hort., 1872, p. 390, with tab.; Lindenia, ii. t. 94 ; Id., viii: t. 366 ; Veiteh's Man. Orch. K., 30. P. LUDDEMANNIANA OCHRACEA, Garriere.—In this variety the flowers have the sepals and petals of a pale yellowish-rose barred with pale brown, thus forming a distinct and pretty com- panion to the original brighter-coloured P. Liiddemanniana.—Philippine Islands. 'FiG.—Rcv. Sort., 1872, p. 390, with tab. P. MANNII, Rohh. f.—^A very pretty species, rather near to P. comu-cervi, with oblong-ligulate acute leaves, a span to a foot long, green, with a violet edge and many violet spots near the base; the flowers are numerous (thirteen or more), in deflexed racemes, with the stalks scarcely winged; they are about 2 inches in diameter, the oblong-ligulate sepals, and smaller linear-falcate petals honey yellow, conspicuously blotched and spotted with rich brown; the lip is very singular, the lateral lobes being erect ligulate retuse, whitish streaked with purple, and- the whitish central lobe crescent- shaped and fringed.—Assam. P. MARIAE, Burbidge. — This elegant dwarf- habited species resembles P. sumatrana in its manner of growth, and its flowers are also similar in form to those of that plant. The leaves are deflexed, distichous, ligulate acute, glossy, and obscurely striate; the flowers grow in a lateral drooping raceme, and are about 1| inch across; the oblong bluntish sepals and the somewhat broader petals are white, each marked with about six bold trans- verse bars of chestnut-brown, the basal blotches being amethyst; the lip, which has the middle lobe obovate oblong apiculate, convex, and plane, not pilose, iS. PHALABNOPSIS Please
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