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bufF. The large lip white, touched with pale rose, and 

 thickly covered with golden-brown spots. 



Very notable is the Zygo-colax hybrid, Leopardinus 

 (Zygopetalum maxillare x Colax jugosus), of which we give 

 an illustration. 



Here is also the Zygopetalum hybrid, Perrenoudii (inter- 

 medium X Guatieri). — Sepals and petals green, heavily blurred 

 with brown. Lip violet, deepening to purple. 



Against the back wall of this house stands a little grove 

 of Thunias Bensoniae and Marshalliana ; the former magenta 

 and purple, and the latter white with yellow throat, profusely 

 striped with orange red. The wondrous intricacy of design 

 so notable in the colouring of orchids is nowhere more 

 conspicuous than in Thunia Marshalliana. 



The Cymbidium House 



Our 'specimen' Cymbidiums, that is, the large plants, 

 are scattered up and down in other houses ; for singly they 

 are ornaments, and together their great bulk and long 

 leaves would occupy too much space. Here are only small 

 examples, or small species, planted out upon a bed of tufa 

 amidst ferns and moss and begonias, Cyrtodeira Chontalensis, 

 and the pretty 'African violet,' St. Paulii ionantha. 



Cymbidiums are not showy, as the term applies to 

 Cattleyas and Dendrobes. Their colour, if not white, is 

 brown or yellow, with red -brown markings. We hear 

 indeed of wonders to be introduced some day — of a gigantic 

 species, all golden, which dwells in secluded valleys of 

 the Himalayas, and another, bright scarlet, in Madagascar. 

 In fact, this was collected again and again by M. Humblot 

 and shipped to Europe ; but every piece died before 

 arrival. At length M. Humblot carried some home him- 



