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drooping clusters of delicate rose-coloured, sweet-scented flowers ; 

 the smaller but darker-coloured Ac. maciclosum, and the beautiful 

 strongly scented Ae. odoratum; but none of them are very regularly 

 flowering when established in our Ferneries. Of the African Augrce- 

 cums, the beautiful large white-flowered A. stsquipedale has flowered 

 well in a well-known orchid-collection in Bombay (Mr. M. C, 

 Turner's), Bletia ht/acinthina and B. verecunda, ground-orchids with 

 handsome dark crimson flowers, deserve some attention as they 

 seeth to flower regularly. The Cahmthes, also ground-orchids, are 

 well represented by the pretty white- flowered 0. veratrifolla which 

 is quite hardy, even in the open ground, and flowers profusely, and by 

 the lovely varieties of the rose and white-flowered, exceedingly 

 beautiful C. Veitchu and C. vestita which also flower well. A few 

 tree-growing Cymbidi urns with their long drooping sprays of brownish - 

 yellow flowers are among the freest flowering orchids of our Ferne- 

 ries. The liighly interesting and often exceedingly beautiful Cypri- 

 I'l'ditiin? or Lady's slippers are represented by a few kinds, but are 

 very rarely seen in flower. The De.ndrobiums undoubtedly contain 

 the most attractive kinds of our orchids and occur in great variety. 

 Among the best and most regularly flowering, DendroMvm aureum 

 is very conspicuous by its bright golden-yellow flowers, while D. 

 barbatvhum, which is common at our hill-stations, is attractive by 

 its graceful sprays of bell-shaped pure white or sometimes flesh- 

 coloured small flowers, and the white-flowered D. cretaceum 

 is peculiar by its long drooping whip-like stems, often 

 entirely covered with rather large flowers. D. Dalhou- 

 sianum with large pale yellow flowers, blotched with purple, is of 

 striking beauty, and belongs with splendid purple-flowered D. nobile 

 the charming, very large flowered pure white, D. formosum and 

 D. Picrardi with white, yellow and bluish-tinged large flowers on 

 long drooping stemstothe best representatives of this form (genus), 

 but. unfortunately they are but rarely seen in flower in Bombay 

 except when freshly imported. The rather common D. secundum 

 with tooth-brush-like rose-coloured flower spikes is more peculiar 

 than beautiful. The Epldendrums are represented by one kind 

 only, E. elongatum, with small rose-coloured flowers, and of very easy 

 cultivation. The beautiful Ilahcnaria {Phrfanthcra) Susanna, from 



