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usual distichous arrangement. The racemes are axillary and 

 many-flowered ; the largest on Mr. Lee's plant bore twelve 

 blossoms. The flowers themselves are spread out flat, and are 

 about four inches in diameter ; the dorsal sepal is roundish 

 obovate, and the smaller petals are obovate-cuneate, all these 

 being blush pink slightly stained with bufi" yellow ; the lateral 

 sepals are much larger and broader, being about two inches 

 across, divergent, obliquely and broadly obovate, pale nankin 

 outside, greenish yellow distinctly reticulated with dull 

 crimson over the entire surface ; the lip is small, concave, 

 pale purplish red at the base, the strongly recurved tip choco- 

 late-purple, and with three prominent keels extending from 

 the base to the apex. It flowers in September and October. — 

 Philippine Islands : Mindmiao. 



'Eld.— Orchid Album, iii. t. 12t ; lllust. Eorf., 3 ser,, t. 532 ; Gard. Chron., 

 N.S., XX. 440, figs. 67-68 (habit and inflorescence). 

 Syn. — Esmeralda Sanderiana. 



Y. Stangeana, Bchh. f. — A species somewhat resembling 

 T^ 7(OA'/>!()7//a7, producing from four to five flowers on a spike. 

 The sepals and petals inside are at first greenish, afterwards 

 ochre-coloured, tessellated with dark purple-brown ; the 

 auricles of lip are blunt, white with yellow and some mauve- 

 blue spots, the centre lobe cordate triangular, emarginate at 

 the apex, white with mauve-blue, or wholly mauve-blue. — - 

 Assam. 



V. SUavis, Lindley. — A truly magnificent species, and one 

 of the finest of Orchids for exhibition purposes. It is a 

 strong-growing plant of erect habit, with lorate flaccid re- 

 curved dark green leaves, obliquely dentate at the apex. The 

 peduncles are axillary, and bear a bold elongate raceme of 

 large handsome flowers, which are very freely produced, and 

 deliciously fragrant. The sepals and petals are bluntly spa- 

 thulate, the dorsal sepal and two petals turned backwards away 

 from the lip, convex, much undulated, and sublobate, the 

 petals twisted so as to bring their hinder face foremost, all 

 pure white unspotted outside, but on the inner surface freely 

 spotted and barred with rich blood-purple ; the convex three- 

 lobed lip has the front lobe narrow, deeply bifid, and of a 

 pale rosy purple, while the lateral lobes are ovate, flat, and of 

 a deeper bright rosy purple. It blossoms at difierent periods 

 of the year, and lasts a long time in perfection. So noble 

 and sweet a plant should find a home in every Orchid ccUec- 



