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and as these plants are so easily grown, if not much disturbed 

 or kept too warm, it is surprising that they are so neglected 

 by the majority of Orchid growers. It grows from twelve 

 to twenty inches high, and has oblong-linear obtuse leaves, 

 and densely set flower spikes. The flowers have the side 

 lobes of the lip roundish and dark purple, and middle lobe 

 white spotted with crimson, the two parts forming a striking 

 contrast ; they have a very long spur. Fig. — Bot. Mag., 

 t. 1944 ; Bot. Reg., t. 202 ; Florist, 1853, t. 74.- South 'of 

 Exirope ; Barbary. 



Orcllis maculata SUperba, Hon. — This is a very fine variety 

 of our British species, 0. maculata. There are many of the 

 native species which are very interesting, though they are 

 difficult to manage, or get the credit of being so, because no 

 one perseveres with them and endeavours to understand their 

 peculiar requirements. The present plant has bloomed very 

 finely with us upon several occasions, and is well worth general 

 cultivation. It grows about eighteen inches high, the leaves 

 dark green, beautifully spotted with purple, and the flower 

 spikes about a foot long, densely set with the beautiful flowers, 

 which are a rich mauve, spotted and blotched with purple, 

 and which last in perfection a long time. It flowers in May 

 and June, and is a good match plant for 0. foliosa. — Europe. 



Platanttiera incisa, Lindley. — An interesting and pretty 

 herbaceous Orchid growing from a foot to a foot and a half 

 high, with obtusely lanceolate stem-leaves deep green in 

 colour, and oblong many-flowered terminal racemes with small 

 thickly set handsome fragrant flowers of a rich purple, the lip 

 being three-parted and deeply fringed. — North America. 



Satyrium aureum, Paxton. — This represents a very inte- 

 resting genus of Orchids which succeeds admirably in a cold 

 frame, in turfy peat and fibry loam and sand, with plenty of 

 drainage. As is the case in other genera, some species are 

 much handsomer than others. S. aureum. is a really fine thing, 

 growing a foot or more in height, producing its deep orange 

 flowers, which are shaded with rich crimson, in July and 

 August, and continuing in perfection a long time. We saw it 

 growing very freely at Heckfield, in the collection of Lord 

 Eversley, where many curious and interesting terrestrial 

 species are to be found. Fig. — Paoct. Mag. Bot., xv. 81, 

 with tab. — South Africa. 



