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of this family produce the Vanilla go extensively used for 

 flavouring chocolate, liqueurs, ices, &c., and which is con- 

 sidered one of the finest of aromatic perfumes. 



Culture. — These plants require strong heat during their 

 growing season, and should be potted in peat and sphagnum 

 moss, and have either some rough logs of wood to grow 

 upon, or should be trained against a wall. They produce 

 roots freely from their climbing stems, and are consequently 

 readily increased by means of cuttings. 



V. Phalsenopsis, Bchb. /. — An exceedingly interesting 

 plant, and one which is quite an exception to the rest of 

 the species, as it produces very showy flowers. It is of 

 climbing habit, producing long rooting leafless stems as 

 thick as one's little finger, terete fleshy and channelled on 

 one side. The flowers are large, three inches across, and 

 borne in umbels at the ends of the flowering branches, six 

 or seven flowers being produced in an umbel, with a few 

 ovate deep green bracts below. The sepals are ovate oblong 

 acute, of a faint blush white, keeled behind, the two lateral 

 ones divided quite down to the base on the lower side ; the 

 petals are more ovate and less sharply pointed, somewhat 

 repand, of the same pale blush white, and channelled down the 

 centre ; and the lip is folded in a broadly funnel-shaped form 

 with an oblique recurved repand obtuse limb, the outer side 

 pale rosy blush, the inside tawny orange, rather over an inch 

 long, and three-fourths of an inch wide. It is exceedingly 

 rare, but well deserving of the attention of Orchid growers. — 

 Madagascar. 

 ¥lG.— Flore des Serves, tt. 1769-70 ; Put/cU, Les Orch., t. 49, 



"WaEEEA, Lindley. 

 {Tribe Yandege, suhtribe Cyrtopodiese.) 



This is a small group of terrestrial Orchids, separated by 

 Dr. Lindley from the old genus Maxillaria. They are pseudo- 

 bulbous, with few distichous plicate-venose reed-like leaves, 

 and tall radical scapes bearing a loose raceme of subglobose 



