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Garden and Forest. 



[Number 233. 



It will be remembered that this species was introduced to 

 Kew by Dr. Henry, and that it has yellow flowers as large 

 as those of L. speciosum and not unlike them in shape. 

 Ph.\l.icnopsis Artemis is a new hybrid raised by Messrs. 



media, which sprung from P. amabilis and P. rosea, but 

 the flowers of the newer one are larger and of a clearer 

 shade of pink. 



CcELOGYNE Sanderiaxa was also shown in flower by 



Fi^. 63. — Astei amethyslinus. —See page 377. 



J. Veitch & Sons from P. grandifiora and P. rosea, and ex- 

 hibited by them in flower at the last meeting of the Ro3'al 

 Horticultural Society. As might have been expected, there 

 is a close resemblance between it and the hybrid P. inter- 



Messrs. Sander & Co., who introduced a quantity of it 

 about five years ago. It has large, handsome flowers, 

 quite as large as those of C. cristata, in drooping racemes, 

 pure white with streaks of chocolate running through the 



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