myself, having gone down to the Kookenaam to bathe, 
gathered, just round the small pool I chose for the purpose, . 
two most glorious clumps of this Orchid, the better of the 
two having five spikes of flowers, of which one bore nine, 
each of the others eight blossoms—in all forty-one of some 
of the largest and finest Cattleya flowers ever seen on a single 
small plant, the roots of which easily lay on my extended 
hand.” 
The plant here figured flowered in the Royal Gardens in 
March of the present year.—J. D. H, 
Fig. 1, Column and anther; 2, anther; 3, pollinia :—all enlarged. 
