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where there is no Orchid house, as a mixed stove suits them 

 perfectly. For further particulars see Ancectochilus. 



G. Dominii, Hort. — A beautiful hybrid, raised in Messrs. 

 Veitch's nursery, and as regards foliage one of the best forms 

 we have seen. The leaves are larger than those of Hcemaria 

 discolor, having a dark bronzy velvet-like appearance, with 

 several prominent lines running their whole length, of a 

 lightish colour — nearly white, and interspersed with smaller 

 veins. It is a useful addition to this class of plants, as it 

 forms a good contrast with Ancectochilus. — Garden hybrid. 



Gr. macrantlia, Maximowicz. — A very neat and pretty 

 dwarf- growing terrestrial Orchid, and a valuable acquisition 

 to the cool house. The leaves are dark velvety green with 

 a pale green central band, and beautifully netted over the 

 surface with a lighter shade of the same colour, the under 

 surface being pale green. The flowers grow in short terminal 

 spikes of two or three together, and are about an inch long, 

 of a pretty rosy pink colour, the petals and lip white. It 

 belongs to the section Georchis, which has a cylindraceous 

 tubulose perianth, with all the parts — sepals, petals, and lip 

 — linear, the upper one united with the petals. — Japan. 



G-. macrantlia luteo-m-arginata, Maxim., is a very choice 

 variety, in which the leaves have, besides the elegant reticu- 

 lation, a distinct and effective marginal band of creamy 

 yellow. — Japan. 



'Fig.— Flore des Serves, tt. 1779, 1780 ; Gartenflora, t. 533, fig. 2 ; Florist 

 and Pom., 1867, 227, with fig. ; Card. Chron., 1867, 1022, with fig, 



Gr. picta, Hort. — A distinct species, growing about three 

 inches high. The leaves are an inch and a half long, light 

 pea-green, with a paler band running through the entire leaf. 

 We have not seen it in flower, but it is worth growing on 

 account of its foliage. A rare plant, whose roots are not so 

 thick as those of some other kinds, and which therefore 

 requires more care in its cultivation. — Native Coimtry not 

 known. 



G-. pubescens, E. Br. — A charming dwarf evergreen species, 

 with a tuft of ovate dark green leaves marked with a silvery 

 white costa, and closely reticulated with paler veins, so that 

 in appearance it is something like Physurus argenteus. The 

 flower scape rises from the centre of the leaf tuft, about 



