spotted with light brown, the lip large, much incurved, with a concave front lobe 
of a light rosy purple colour. It blooms during the summer and autumn months, 
and lasts several weeks in beauty. 
This Vanda requires the same temperature as the other eastern species, that is, 
the heat of the East India house. With us it does well in a basket, suspended 
from the roof, where it gets plenty of light, but is shaded from the hottest sun. 
We find sphagnum moss and good drainage to suit it well, but it requires very 
little material about its roots, and a few lumps of charcoal intermixed with the 
moss prove to be a great inducement for it to put forth new roots more freely, a 
they seem to enjoy it; the moss must be fresh and in a living state, indeed, the 
material must never be allowed to get into a bad or sour soddened condition, 
which is a great deterrent to all Orchids as well as other plants. Cleanliness is 
one of the greatest virtues in plant culture. This plant requires a moderate supply 
of water in the growing season, and even when at rest the moss must be kept 
rather moist. It will thrive also on a block of wood or a raft, but when growing 
on these it requires more moisture, which is best applied by syringing every fine 
day, or twice a day in summer, in order that the blocks may never get too dry. 
Cyprireprom Gopsrroya.—tThis distinct novelty has recently flowered with 
Baron de Rothschild, at Ferrigres, France, and with W. Lee, Bsq., Downside 
Leatherhead. Mr. Bergman, gardener to Baron de Rothschild, was kind enough . 
send us materials for figuring the plant, which we hope to do shortly for the bene t 
of our subscribers. In habit of growth this species resembles Cypripedium niven 
in fact the two plants, when not in blossom, are undistinguishable the one us 
the other ; the flowers, however, though similar in shape to those of C. niveum, ge 
totally distinct, being heavily spotted both on the front and back of the sepals ir 
petals with rich purplish brown; the lip is also slightly spotted. In Mr. yee 
flower the spots towards the centre of the petals were so numerous as to form : 
broken line from base to tip, but in Baron de Rothschild’s flower this peculiarity 
was not apparent. This plant was introduced from Cochin China by M. Godefroy- 
Leboeuf, of Argenteuil, France.—H. W. 
