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Masdevallia Wallisii Oncidium tigrinum 

 Maxillaria sanderiana uniflorum 



tenuifolia varicosum 



Miltonia russelliana Ornithidium densum 



Odontoglossum bictonense Peristeria elata 



citrosmum Phaius grandifolius Humblotii 



Oncidium candidum Wallichii 



gravesianum Platyclinis glumacea 



harrisonii Sophronitis grandiflora 



jonesianum Stanhopea Bucephalus 

 ,, Lanceanum graveolens 



Papilio oculata 



sarcodes Stenoglottis longifolia 



,, sphacellatum Tetramicra rigida 



splendidum Vanda amesiana 



In the centre of the house are the showy Aroid, Anthurium 

 scherzerianum, and its varieties, Araucaria brasiliana, Clero- 

 dendron balfourii, and Gloxinias and Begonias in their season. 

 And among other plants we notice : 



Acacia sphaerocephala Haemanthus lindenii 



Acalypha godseffiana Hibiscus solandra, var. grandi- 

 Aeschynanthus lobbianus floras 



Araucaria brasiliensis Howea fosteriana 



Begonia argynea Maranta massangeana 



Biophytum proliferum Phoenix reclinata 



Ceropegia woodii Saintpaulia ionantha 



Cordyline fruticosa Vallesia cymbiforme 



No. 10. THE CACTUS OR SUCCULENT HOUSE 



"A collection which is probably hardly second to any in England." 

 PROF. LAWSON in 1876. 



In the relatively dry atmosphere of this house live the. 

 Aloes, the Cactuses, the leafless and poisonous Euphorbias, 

 and other succulent plants, which in their struggle to preserve 

 their stores of water from drying up, and eventually from 

 thirsty quadrupeds, have sometimes evolved such uncouth and 

 misshapen swollen forms as to present perhaps the widest 



