. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. 672 oechid-grower's manual. this will probably account for it being more robust. It can in cultivation stand a great deal more light than P. tetraspis, probably as much as any of the other Phalaenopsis" (Major-General E. S. Berkeley, in Oardeners' Chronicle, 1887).— Andaman Islands. Fig.—Orchid Album, ir. t. 158 ; Gard. Chrm., , 1882, xviii. p. 745, ffi. 130—132; Id., 1886, xxvi. p. 277, f. 56 ; Seichenhachia, ii. t. 51; Lindenia, vi. t. 288; VcHch
. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. 672 oechid-grower's manual. this will probably account for it being more robust. It can in cultivation stand a great deal more light than P. tetraspis, probably as much as any of the other Phalaenopsis" (Major-General E. S. Berkeley, in Oardeners' Chronicle, 1887).— Andaman Islands. Fig.—Orchid Album, ir. t. 158 ; Gard. Chrm., , 1882, xviii. p. 745, ffi. 130—132; Id., 1886, xxvi. p. 277, f. 56 ; Seichenhachia, ii. t. 51; Lindenia, vi. t. 288; VcHch's Man. Orch. PL, vii. p. 38. P. SPECIOSA CHRISTIANA, Bchl. /.— A very distinct and beautiful variety with broader sepals and petals than in the type; the latter are white and the former rose- PHALAENOPSIS SPECIOSA. 1 57. Fig.— Gard. Chron., , 1886, xxvi. p. 277 P. SPECIOSA IMPERATRIX, Hchl. /.—This variety is said to have larger flowers than the type, of a deep rosy-purple colour. P. STUARTIANA, —-A very distinct and strikingly beautiful species of Phalaenopsis, introduced by Messrs. Low & Co., of Clapton, and named in com- pliment to the late Mr. Stuart Low. In growth it resembles P. Bchilleriana, as it does also in the shape of the flowers. The plant has flattened roots, and bears oblong acute leaves, which are marbled when young, but become almost green as they get older. The flowers are produced in large branching panicles, and are about 2 inches across, with the anchor-like tips of the lip, as seen in P. Bchilleriana; the rhomboid petals and oblong upper sepal are pure white, the lateral sepals are white on the upper side, and very pale sulphur on the lower side, where they are thickly spotted with cinnamon-red, as is also the central part of the lip, which has white edges and white horns. It flowers in the winter months.—Philippine Islands. Fig.—Bot. Mag., t. 6622 ; Gard. Chron., , xvi. pp. 748, 753, f. 149 ; Florist and Pom.
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