1 62 THE WOODLANDS ORCHIDS 



there is no difference between them, and such of these plants 

 as call for notice, in my very narrow space, are described 

 among the Cypripeds. 



One rarity, however, I must not overlook — Miltonia 

 Binottii, assumed to be a natural hybrid of M. Candida and 

 M. Regnellii ; sepals and petals creamy yellow, tinged with 

 lilac at the base and barred with cinnamon brown ; lip pale 

 rosy purple. 



Anguloas 



Nature has thought fit to produce many clumsy plants, 

 and the well-balanced mind raises no objection so long as 

 they remain in their proper place. A pumpkin is not a 

 thing of grace, but then nobody calls on us to admire it. 

 There is little to choose between an Anguloa and a pumpkin 

 in the way of beauty ; yet a multitude of people, not less 

 sane to all appearance than their neighbours, invite one to 

 mark and linger over its charms. This always seems very 

 strange to me. I remember a painting of Adam in Paradise, 

 exhibited by an Academician famous in his day — less 

 perhaps for talent than for the popular belief that he wrote 

 certain wailing letters signed ' A British Matron,' which the 

 Times published occasionally. Adam was sitting on a flowery 

 bank. The good Academician had all the Asiatic realm of 

 botany before him, wherein to choose blooms appropriate for 

 Paradise ; he spurned them all, crossed the Atlantic, surveyed 

 the treasures of the New World, and from the lovely host 

 selected — Anguloa Clowesii ! Upon a bed of these Adam 

 sat — of these alone ; nothing else was worthy of a place 

 beside them. Evidently Anguloas have a fascination. But 

 my soul is blind to it. We have all the species here. 



