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indeed, measuring two feet in length, of a bright salmon 

 colour, intermixed with as bright a yellow. Another with 

 plaited foliage, and a nodding head of some twenty bright 

 yellow blossoms, having a deep stain of crimson on the 

 cucullate lip, in the manner and of the size of a Dendrohium. 

 Again, another with fleshy leaves and an erect stem of about 

 two feet, supporting from fifteen to thirty large yellow flowers, 

 the lip lined and blotched with pale purple, bearing the aspect 

 of some robust Ejndendrumy Many of these fine things 

 would no doubt ere now have enriched our gardens, had 

 Mr. Plant been spared to return alive. What can be more 

 gorgeous than the Disa grandijiora / There are numerous 

 members of this family at the Cape, and though they are not 

 so large in the flower as the species just named, yet they are 

 exquisitely beautiful. Again, the elegance of the North 

 American Cypripediums is not surpassed by those which 

 inhabit the tropics. Now all these can be cultivated in a 

 cool gi'eenhouse or frame, either planted out or in pots. 

 Indeed, many of the terrestrial kinds will succeed well in 

 the open air if a little care is bestowed upon the selection and 

 preparation of the situation. The number of species I have 

 here enumerated is not extensive ; but there is no reason 

 to prevent us, in the course of a few years, from largely 

 increasing them, if the plant-loving ladies and gentlemen, as 

 well as gardeners, will encourage the growth of these beautiful 

 plants ; and any one having friends at the Cape, North 

 America, or Australia, should strongly press upon them to 

 send home the tubers of any Orchids they may find. By this 

 means we should have a great many new additions to our 

 collections. 



The Orchids described in the following pages are all 

 terrestrial species, and must not be elevated above the rim of 

 the pot, as is the custom with the epiphytal ones, but there 



