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green frogs with black tongues, each three inches 
in diameter. The whole bloom is_ brilliantly 
green, but several ridges clothed with hairs as 
black and soft as velvet run down the lip, seeming 
to issue from a mouth. It is strange to see that 
a plant so curious, so beautiful, and so sweet 
should be so rarely cultivated ; I own, however, 
that it is very unwilling to make itself at home 
with us. Cal. Dayana, also a native of Borneo, 
one of our newest discoveries, is named after Mr. 
Day, of Tottenham. I may interpolate a remark 
here for the encouragement of poor but enthusi- 
astic members of our fraternity. When Mr. Day 
sold his collection lately, an American “ Syndicate” 
paid 12,000/. down, and the remaining plants 
fetched 12,000/. at auction; so, at least, the un- 
contradicted report goes. Cel. Dayana is rare, 
of course, and dear, but Mr. Sander has lately 
imported a large quantity. The spike is three 
feet long sometimes, a pendant wreath of buff- 
yellow flowers broadly striped with chocolate. 
Cel. Massangeana, from Assam, resembles this, 
but the lip is deep crimson-brown, with lines of 
yellow, and a white edge. Newest of all the 
Coelogenes, and supremely beautiful, is CvZ/, 
Sandertana, imported by the gentleman whose 
name it bears. He has been called “The Orchid 
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