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spite. This is the most massive and majestic plant of the 

 whole group. — Burmah. 



YiQ.—Bot. Mao., t. 5189 ; Batem. 2nd Cent. Orch. PL, t. Ii2 ; Jlhist. 

 Eort., t. 277 ; Xenia Orch., ii. t. 112. 



Stn. — V. Lindleyana; Fieldia gigantea. 



Y. hastifera, Bchh. f. — A very rare plant of tall-growing 

 habit, bearing lax racemes of flowers surpassing those of 

 V. Boxallii. The spathulate undulated sepals and petals are 

 light yellow marked with fine red blotches inside ; the lip, 

 which is peculiar, having a compressed conical spur, semi- 

 oblong triangular auricles, and a hastate blade covered with 

 hairs at its base which is dilated thick tumid blunt and 

 shining in front, is white marked with brown and mauve, and 

 the column is white spotted with brown. — So7idaic Islands. 



V. Hookeriana, Bckh.f. — This distinct and very beautiful 

 species, which is in habit something like a small form of V. 

 teres, has resisted many attempts to introduce it in a living 

 state, but, thanks to the zeal of our collectors, we have now 

 a plentiful supply. It has elongate rigid terete pale green 

 rooting stems, and erect terete pale green leaves two to three 

 inches long, and tapered to a subulate point. The peduncles 

 grow out near the top of the stem, opposite the leaves, which 

 they exceed in length, and bear a raceme of from two to five 

 membranaceous flowers, each two and a half inches in diameter, 

 the sepals white tinted with rose, the larger spathulate oblong 

 undulated petals white spotted with magenta, and the lip 

 expanded from a cuneate base, three-lobed, upwards of one 

 and a half inch broad, white, beautifully lined longitudinally 

 in the centre, transversely on the side lobes, and spotted near 

 the edge on all the lobes with rich magenta-purple, a large 

 triangular deep purple auricle standing on each side the 

 column. It was recently flowered in the collections of Lord 

 Rothschild, at Tring Park, and the late J. S. Bockett, Esq., 

 Stamford Hill. In these cases only two flowers have been 

 produced on the spike, but we have reason to believe that with 

 improved cultivation it will produce as many as five. It 

 flowers in September, and requires the same treatment as 

 that recommended for F. teres. — Borneo. 



'Eld.— Orchid Album, ii. t. 73 ; Tllust. Eort., 3 ser., t. 484. 



V. insignis, Blume. — This very beautiful plant has by 

 repute been an inmate of our gardens for years, but its name 

 was for a long time given in mistake to a variety of V. tricolor. 



