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lovely pale silvery-lilac colour, some varieties merging into 

 rosy-pnrple, but all retaining a wonderful transparency of 

 colouring. Its flowers are rounder and the segments shorter 

 than those of M. Harryana. It appears to be very rare, but 

 may be expected to turn up promiscuously among batches of 

 imported plants from time to time. In common with the other 

 species of the genus, it grows vigorously in the cool house, 

 surrounded by living sphagnam, and plentifully supplied with 

 moisture. 



M. tovarensis. — This is a little gem, its flowers being of 

 snowy whiteness, borne in pairs, or more rarely in 

 threes, on a short triquetrous scape. The caudate appendages 

 of the lateral sepals cross each other in a curious manner. 

 The old flower-spikes, if allowed to remain, will continue to 

 produce flowers successively, in a manner analogous to the 

 old Hoya carnosa. It is easily recognised by its ^Dearly 

 blossoms. 



M. Veitchhl. — This still remains the handsomest of all the 

 Masdevallias at present introduced to our gardens ; its leaves 

 are a foot or more in length ; flowers of large size, singly, on 

 scapes, from twelve to eighteen inches high ; sepals fused into 

 a^campanulate tube, their extremities narrow or caudate ; the 

 colour is a brilliant orange, the lower sepals being densely beset 

 with bright purple hairs, which, mingling with the orange 

 beneath, give an indescribable brilliancy to the flower. Like 

 the rest of the species, it keeps on growing and flowering all 

 all the year round. 



Maxillaria. 



*7tl. grcmdlflora (Lindlcy, Peru). — This must be consi 

 dered one of the finest species of the genus, and one that 

 will well repay any trouble or extra care in its cultivation ; 

 pseudo-bulbs roundish, two inches high ; one-leaved ; flowers 

 solitary, on scapes from four to nine inches high ; sepals from 



