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the most majestic and massive plant of the whole tribe. 

 Native of Burmah. 



V. Hookeri.—TUs distinct-growing species is in habit 

 like a small form of F. teres. It has resisted many attempts 

 to be introduced in a hving state ; but we have now got it 

 faii-ly estabUshed, though it has not yet been bloomed in this 

 country, so far as I am aware. 



V. i7idgnis.— This very beautiful and extremely rare plant 

 has long been an inmate of our gardens by name, but that 

 name has been given in mistake to a variety of V. tricolor, as 

 the recent introduction of the true plant has proved. The 

 flowers of this species are as largp as those of V. tricolor ; 

 sepals and petals chocolate brown, spotted with deep blood- 

 red, yellowish white on the outside ; lip large, spoon-shaped, 

 its side lobes white, the centre rich purple. It is exceedingly 

 handsome, producing its blooms in May and June. Native 

 of the Malay Islands. 



V. Roxburghii. — A good old species from India, with white 

 and purple flowers, which appear during the summer, and last 

 five or six weeks in beauty. There are two varieties of this 

 plant, one being much handsomer and having a darker 

 coloured hp than the other. 



V. suavis. — ^A truly magnificent Orchid from Java, of 

 strong-growing habit, and very free in flowering. It pro- 

 duces branching spikes of flowers, each being large, of a 

 creamy white, spotted with crimson, and blooms at difierent 

 times of the year, lasting a long time in perfection. This 

 makes one of the finest of all plants for exhibition. One of 

 the finest and most distinct varieties of it was exhibited at the 

 Manchester Exhibition in 1869, by G. Gottschalcke, Esq. ; 

 it was remarkable for its broad leaves and stout stem, the 

 flowers being very large, the sepals and petals profusely spotted, 

 and the lip tipped with white. 



