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unattractive petals and lip. This noble species blooms 

 usually during the autumn months, lasting long in perfection, 

 but sometimes also flowers in April and 

 May ; it requires very cool treatment. — 

 High Mountains of Peru. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 5739 ; Flore des Serres, t. 

 1803 ; Floral 3Iag., t. 481 ; Warner, Sel. Orch. PL, 

 ii. t. 33; Garcl. Chron., 1871, 1421, fig. 310; Id., 

 xvi. 409, fig. 79 A ; Fuydt, Les Orch., t. 25 ; Florist 

 and Pom., 1873, 169, with tab. 



M. Yeitchiana grandiflora, Williams. — 



A very large-flowered and handsome va- 

 riety, producing flowers from five to seven 

 inches in length, of great substance, and 

 of a bright orange- scarlet colour deeply 

 shaded with purple. We first saw this veitchiana^ 



grand form in the collection of His Koyal 

 Highness the Prince of Wales at Sandringham. It flowers 

 during the summer months.— Pent. 



M. Wageneriana, Linden. — This is truly a pigmy Orchid, 

 the whole plant not growing more than two or three inches 

 high. . It has the same tufted habit as the rest of the genus, 

 with spathulate obtuse coriaceous leaves, and filiform scapes 

 of about equal length, bearing each one flower, which has a 

 short cup-shaped tube, formed by the united bases of the 

 three broad ovate sepals, which are yellow, the dorsal one 

 clouded with chestnut red inside, and the lateral ones 

 minutely dotted ; the fleshy recurved deeply toothed hook- 

 pointed lip, which is dotted over with red-brown, is a beautiful 

 object when seen through a magnifying glass. — Venezuela. 



Fig.— Xewia Orch., i. t. 75, fig. 2 ; Paxt. Fl. Gard., iii. 74, fig. 267 ; Bot. 

 Mag., t. 4921. 



M. Wallisii, Hort. — A very interesting plant, which has 

 hitherto in most collections represented the grotesque but 

 withal handsome M. Chimm-a. The plant has narrowly ob- 

 lanceolate acute leaves, narrowed to the base, six to nine 

 inches high, and sheathed at the base. The flower scapes 

 are shorter than the leaves, decurved at top, bracteate, each 

 bearing a solitary flower, which measures eight inches from 

 tip to tip of the dorsal and lateral sepals, and are of a yellowish 

 ochre colour, with deep purplish red markings, the perianth 

 tube shortly campanulate, the broadly obovate sepals densely 



