the past autumn, and where it is to be seen for the greater part of the season 
in flower. 
Mazillaria venusta is a strong-growing but dwarf plant, producing stout 
bright green leaves, and flowers of a large size, which frequently measure some five 
or six inches across; these are thick and fleshy in texture, of the purest white, 
saving the lip which is yellow, blotched with dark purplish crimson. Its usual 
flowering season is during the autumn and winter months, but it will continue 
flowering during the whole summer, when the plant becomes thoroughly established, 
bearing a score or more of its pure, milky white flowers, and presenting, as some 
of our patrons have reported to us, a noble appearance. The plant comes from 
an altitude of 5,000 or 6,000 feet, and consequently requires to be grown in the 
coolest house, kept in a moist position, and in the shade. It enjoys an abundant 
supply of water, therefore it should be well and carefully drained. We like pot- 
culture for this plant best, and we find that it likes firm potting, using for soil 
good brown upland peat-fibre mixed with some chopped sphagnum moss. It likes 
to be kept moist all the year through, and a larger supply of water should be 
given during the summer; do not however, by any means stop the supply even 
in the winter season, but let it have enough to keep bulbs and leaves im a 
healthy condition. 
Denprosium WaRrDIANUM (Broome’s var.).—This is one of the most distinct 
forms of D. Wardianum it has ever been our pleasure to see. We do not mean 
to infer that it is a gigantic coarse flower like so many we often notice, although 
it is of large size, splendid shape, and the colour especially is magnificent. We 
are in receipt of blooms of this variety from Jos. Broome, Esq., of Sunny Hill, 
Llandudno, and it is even finer in colour than the variety Reged by Mr. Warner, 
in his Select Orchidaceous Plants, vol. i., t. 19. Judging by the beautiful colour, we 
are inclined to think that it must be from an fasportation from Assam, where the 
most beautiful varieties have been sent from. The sepals are of a : lovely rosy 
Baa pm tipped with crimson, whilst the backs are entirely a very deep 
osy hue o the same colour. Petals much broader than the sepals, white on both» 
sides, and heavily tipped with magenta-crimson ; a 
recurved at the tip, where the lip is large, of fine form, and 
veotadadec Wlin ts it is also marked with deep magenta-crimson, the 
teased Pe es ® tTich orange-yellow, excepting a streak of white between these 
; wo large dark maroon blotches at the base.—W. H. G. 
