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tion. According to Lindley the plant figured in Botanical 

 Magazine, t. 4432, is a yellow-flowered variety of F. suavis, 

 which he calls Y. s. flava. — Java. 



YlG.—Bot. Mag., t. 5174 ; Batem. 2nd Cent. Orch. PI, 1. 125 ; Pescatorea 

 t. 8 (media) ; Jennings, Orch., t. 23 ; Paxt. Fl. Gard., ii. t. 42, fig. 3 

 Orchid Album, iv. t. 180; Puydt, Les Orch., t. 47; Xenia Orch., i. t. 12 

 Hort. Franq., 1861, t. 1 ; Flore des Serres, t. 641, fig. 3; Id., tt. 1604-5 

 (Hrubyana) ; Gard. Chiton., N,s., xxii. 237, fig. 47 (Wingate's var.). 



V. suavis Gottsclialckei, Williams. — This is the finest 

 variety of V. suavis that has ever come under our notice. It 

 was first flowered in 1869 by G. Gottschalcke, Esq., of 

 Manchester, and exhibited by him at the Manchester 

 Show in that year. The stem and foliage are both much 

 stouter than those of the type ; the flowers, too, are much 

 larger, and of stouter substance and better shape. The 

 sepals and petals are more densely spotted than in T'^. suavis, 

 and the pedicels are deeply tinged with rose ; the lip is 

 bright rosy purple tipped with white. The flowers are 

 deliciously scented, and are borne at difierent times of the 

 year. — Java. 



V. teiGS, Lindley. — A very handsome and distinct species, 

 of curious aspect, being of a scrambling or climbing habit of 

 growth, extending several feet in length, the stems as well as 

 the leaves being terete or cylindrical, and dark green. Its 

 large flowers are produced in ascending mostly two-flowered 

 racemes from June to August, and last four or five weeks in 

 beauty. The sepals are oblong obtuse, the dorsal one erect, 

 white slightly tinged with rose, the lateral ones twisted, 

 parallel with the lip, creamy white ; the petals are larger, 

 suborbicular and undulated, rosy magenta, lighter towards 

 the margins ; the lip is large, cucullate, bright rosy magenta, 

 strongly veined, the throat orange striped and spotted with 

 crimson, with a conical spur at the base, and a rounded, 

 dilated and emarginate apex. The racemes of flowers issue 

 directly from the stems at a point opposite the leaves. It is 

 rather a shy-flowering species with most people, but we think 

 this may be traced to the plant being too much dried up 

 during the growing season. We have found that the best way 

 to cultivate and flower it successfully is to place the pots which 

 contain the plants under a covering of damp sphagnum moss 

 in a warm sunny house, as near the glass as possible. An 

 abundance of water and air should be given to it while it is 



