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flowers one incli and a half across, from two to four on an 

 erect spike ; sepals about one inch long and half an inch broad, 

 pure white ; petals white, heavily blotched with purple ; lip 

 panduriform, streaked, and Ijlotched with dark bluish purple ; 

 column white, with a few purple streaks ; yellow in front. 

 The vivid contrast between the pure white segments and the 

 rich purple blotches is very pleasing. It lasts a long time in 

 beauty. Also known as " Maxillaria Juijosa." It is a native 

 of Brazil, and grows vigorously in the intermediate house. 

 Cymbidium. 



This is comparatively a large genus of terrestrial Orchids ; 

 still, they are rarely met with in cultivation. They all grow 

 freely in a compost of fresh fibrous peat and crocks, with sand 

 and lumps of charcoal intermixed. The pots must be 

 thoroughly well drained, and the plants like plenty of moisture 

 when growing. 



*G. ehnrnenm (China, E. Bengal). — Foliage distichous, pale 

 green, from sixteen to eighteen inches long, half an inch broad ; 

 grows freely in a moderate temperature that does not descend 

 below 50° in winter; flowers borne two together, on erect scapes ; 

 they are of the purest white colour generally, though some 

 varieties have their petals slightly spotted or suffused with 

 soft flesh colour ; lips with a velvety, golden ridge down the 

 centre of the disc. This is a fine species, and specimen plants of 

 it are worth as much as from fifty to one hundred guineas each 

 Flowers in the spring last fully six weeks in beauty. 



G. Hookerianum. — This is a truly distinct and noble species, 

 bearing great spikes of from five to ten large green flowers, with 

 apale yellow-crimson blotched lip ; individual blooms from three 

 to four inches across. When not in flower, this plant is easily 

 distinguished by the pale yellowish green petioles of its 

 foliage, being distinctly striped with dark green, and having red 

 margins. A fine plant of this flowered in the rare collection of 



