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cultivation. It grows about eighteen inches high ; the leaves 

 are dark green, beautifully spotted with purple, and the llow«r 

 spikes, about a foot long, densely set with the beautiful flowers, 

 which are a rich mauve, spotted and blotched with purple, and 

 which last in perfection a long time ; flowers in May and 

 June, and is a good match plant for Orchis foliosa. 



Platantheba. 

 P. incisa. — -An interesting and pretty herbaceous Orchid. 

 It grows about a foot or a foot and a half high ; the stem 

 leaves are obtusely lanceolate, and deep green in colour; the 

 flowers are thickly set upon the spikes, and are of a rich 

 purple ; the hp being deeply fringed. Native of North America. 



Satymum. 

 8. aureum. — This is a very interesting family of Orchids 

 from South Africa, and one which succeeds admirably in a 

 cold frame, in turfy peat and fibry loam and sand, with plenty 

 of drainage. As in all other genera, some species are much 

 handsomer than others. This one is a really fine thing, 

 growing a foot or more in height, producing its deep orange 

 flowers, which are shaded with rich crimson, in July and 

 August, and continuing in perfection a long time. I saw it 

 growing very freely at Heckfield, in the collection of Lord 

 Eversley, where many curious and interesting terrestial species 

 are to be found. 



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