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ana ; the pink and purple coloured blossoms are produced on 

 a drooping spike : blooms in June, July, and August ; con- 

 tinues in perfection a long time. This makes a fine plant 

 when well grown, and it is worth all the care that can be 

 bestowed upon it. 



G. cristata. A good deciduous species from South America, 

 which grows about eight inches high ; the flowers, which are 

 produced on a drooping spike, are of a pink and dark colour : 

 they appear in July and August, and last four or five weeks 

 in perfection. 



G. Devoniana. A beautiful slender Orchid from South 

 America : it grows about two feet high ; the blossoms, which 

 are produced on spikes from the top of the bulbs, are white, 

 beautifully pencilled with pink : it blooms at different times 

 of the year, and remains a long time in beauty. A very 

 scarce plant. I only know of two ; one in the collection of S. 

 Eucker, Esq., Wandsworth the other in that of J. A. Turner, 

 Esq., Manchester. 



GOODTERAS. 



An interesting class of plants, with compact habit, dark 

 velvety-like foliage, marked with gold and silver lines down 

 the centre of the leaves, and some of the kinds, like the 

 genus Ancectockilus, have silver markings spread over the 

 entire surface of the foliage. The plants have thick fleshy 

 roots, and push from underground stems, forming beautiful 

 round dwarf plants ; the flower spikes which issue from the 

 centre of the foliage attain a height of from six to ten inches ; 

 some of the kinds have delicate white flowers, especially dis- 

 color, which is one of the prettiest white winter flowering 

 plants grown, very useful for bouquets, as well as for other 

 purposes. Of this genus there are many fine species, of 

 which we have only seen drawings, but I hope we shall soon 

 be able to possess the plants themselves. The few I have 



