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" There is probably no genus among Orchids," says Mr. 

 Warner, " the species of which are more generally ornamental 

 no species not worth growing. Even when not in bloom, the 

 different specie?, all similar in habit, are all good-looking 

 objects, from the pleasing disposition of their substantial-looking 

 foliage." 



1. A. affine. Native of Assam ; bears rose-coloured flowers. 



2. A. odoratum. Native of Assam; bears pretty trusses of 

 bloom with small white flowers tinted and spotted with pink, 

 having the form of a curved horn, and diffusing an exquisite 

 lemon-like fragrance. 



These two have been long well known in Calcutta. Of later 

 introduction and all of great beauty are: 3. A. Lobbii; 4. 

 A. Fieldingii ; 5. A. quinquevulnerum ; 6. A. virens ; and 7. A. Lind- 

 leyanum ; the last in Mr. Grote's collection, and spoken of by 

 him as perfection. 8. A. roseum and 9. A. suavissimum. 



Angrsecum. 



A. superbum. Flowers large, white, remarkable for the length 

 of the spur ; in one species as much as a foot and a half long. 



Cymbidium. 



1. C. aloifolium. Native of India; flowers dull-purple and 

 russet, not attractive ; a very common and hardy Orchid ; grows 

 well, left to itself, on the limb of a tree. To be met with also 

 in Calcutta are the Indian species : 2. C. giganteum, with racemes 

 of very large brown tesselated flowers; 3. C. Mastersii, with 

 white fragrant flowers and rush-like leaves ; 4. C. eburneum, 

 like the last, amongst the largest and sweetest of the genus, 

 flowers large, radical, ivory-white, smelling like Lilac ; 5. C. 

 elegans with massive pendulous spikes of yellowish flowers. 

 6. C. lancifolium. 



Grammatophyllum. 



G. Finlaysonianum now called Bromheadia palustris. Native of 

 Penang ; an immensely stout-stemmed hardy Orchid ; has been 

 in the Calcutta Botanical Gardens a great many years, but 

 never flowered. 



Oncidium. 



A genus comprising more than two hundred species, confined 



