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column,” —making a funnel, in short—“the front 
lobe spreading, kidney-shaped, crimson-purple, 
with a blotch of white and yellow in front.” 
In the same districts with Cattleya superba 
grows Galleandra Devoniana under circumstances 
rather unusual. It clings to the very tip of a 
slender palm, in swamps which the Indians them- 
selves regard with dread as the chosen home of 
fever and mosquitoes. It was discovered by Sir 
Robert Schomburgk, who compared the flower to 
a foxglove, referring especially, perhaps, to the 
graceful bend of its long pseudo-bulbs, which is 
almost lost under cultivation. The tube-like 
flowers are purple, contrasting exquisitely with a 
snow-white lip, striped with lilac in the throat. 
Phalcenopsis, of course, are hot. This is one of 
our oldest genera which still rank in the first 
class. It was drawn and described so early as 
1750, and a plant reached Messrs. Rollisson in 
1838 ; they sold it to the Duke of Devonshire 
for a hundred guineas. Many persons regard 
Phalcenopsis as the loveliest of all, and there is 
no question of their supreme beauty, though not 
everyone may rank them first. They come mostly 
from the Philippines, but Java, Borneo, Cochin 
China, Burmah, even Assam contribute some 
species. Colonel Berkeley found Pz, ¢tetraspis, 
