March 15, 1893.] 



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basal sinus. The flowers are borne on stalks a foot long-, 

 the broad concave boat-shaped spathe is six inches long, 

 the spadix is as thick as a man's finger and the color of the 

 whole is coppery red. In the large genus Anthurium, of 

 which over a hundred species are in cultivation at Kew, 

 there are only very few with showy flowers, A. Andrea- 

 num, A. Scherzerianum and A. ornatum being quite excep- 

 tional in the size and color of their inflorescences. A. 



Society, was sold by auction last Friday. It realized fifty- 

 four guineas, the purchasers being Messrs. J. Veitch&Sons. 

 This is suggestive to collectors residing in the eastern 

 Himalaya, where this species is a native. 



Phajus tuberculosus is a most beautiful Orchid, but it 

 does not thrive under cultivation, as a rule. It was intro- 

 duced in quantity from Madagascar about twelve years ago 

 by Messrs. F. Sander & Co., and flowered for the first time 



Fig. 20. — Begonia Souvenir de Fianc^ois Gaulin (reJuceJ). — See page 125. 



Chamberlainii may, however, take rank with them as a 

 large and handsome flowered species. Of course, we have 

 also a considerable number of garden-hybrids with large 

 flowers, and which have been raised from this trio, or one 

 or other of them, crossed with some outsider. 



Cymbidium grandiflorum. — The specimen of this rare Or- 

 chid, mentioned in my letter last week as having been 

 shown in flower at the meeting of the Royal Horticultural 



in Sir Trevor Lawrence's garden in 1881. Its erect sturdy 

 scape, bearing from six to ten flowers, each two inches 

 across, with overlapping segments of the purest white, ex- 

 cept the lip, which is crimson and gold, is a delight to all 

 who see this flower. The late Mr. Spyers, who was Orchid- 

 grower to Sir T. Lawrence, succeeded with this plant by 

 growing it on a pad of moss against a piece of fibrous Fern- 

 stem, watering it copiously, keeping it in a very warm 



