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show some few degrees of frost, so that for the greater portion of 

 ths year it grows well under cultivation in the cool house, but it 

 requires a little more warmth during the growing and the flowering 

 season, and at all times there should be a large amount of moisture in 

 the air. The other species require in addition a large amount of 

 heat, in fact the hottest part of the East Indian house, and a liberal 

 addition of water to their roots, and at any season this should be 

 given in sufficient quantity to preserve their leaves from turning yellow 

 or shrivelling. 



E. BELLA, RcJib. f. — A handsome species introduced by Mr. W. Bull, of 

 Chelsea. Leaves broad, short, shining, unequally bi-lobed at the tips ; the sepals 

 and petals are light ochre-yellow in colour barred with pale brown ; lip white, side 

 lobes striped with purplish-brown, mid lobe bordered with brown. — Himalayas. 



E. CATHCARTI, Bclih. f. — A tall scrambling but very distinct and noble 

 species, somewhat resembling Renanthera cocainea in its general habit, but stouter. 

 The leaves are arranged in a distichous manner, pale green, 6 or 7 inches long, 

 linear-oblong, unequally bi-lobed at the tips, the lobes rounded ; the flower-scape is 

 erect, produced opposite the leaves, bearing four or five fleshy flowers 3 inches in 

 diameter ; the sepals and petals roundish oblong sessile concave, white externally, 

 yellowish with numerous horizontal narrow often confluent bands of reddish- 

 brown ; the lip three-lobed, the small lateral lobes white with red streaks at the 

 base, the middle lobe whitish with a crenate incurved yellow border, and the disk 

 bearing two erect truncate calli; the thick prominent column is green. This 

 species has now become established in our collections, but is rare. — Sil'lcim 

 Himalaya, 2,000 to 4,000 feet, in hot places. 



Fig. — Hot. Mag.,i. 5845 ; Jennings, Orch., 1. 10 ; Flore des Serrea, tt. 1251-2 ; VIll . 

 TTort., t. 187 ; Floral Maq., 2nd ser., t. 66 ; Orchid Album, iv. t. 168 ; Hooh. fil., III. 

 Him. PL, t. 2S ; Gard. Chron., 1S70, p. 1409, f. 251 ; VeitcJi's Man. Orch. PI., v'ii. p. 8 ; 

 Gardening World, vii. p. 669. 



Syn. — Vanda Cathoaiii ; Arachnantlic Cathcarti. 



E. CLARKEIjiJcAfe. /. — Allied to the preceding species, which it much resem- 

 bles in habit ; sepals and petals dark chestnut brown barred transversely with 

 oohre-yellow ; the lateral sepals curved, the petals narrower than the sepals ; the 

 lip resembles that of E. Cathcarti, somewhat whitish, with brown transverse 

 streaks on the side lobes. It was discovered by Mr. C. B. Clarke, after whom it 

 is named, and first flowered in the collection of the late John Day, Esq., of 

 Tottenham. — SikJcim. 



Fig. — Bat. Mag., t. 7077 ; Reiolienhaohia, 2nd ser., ii. t. 05. 

 SyN. — Vanda Clarhei; Arachnanthe Clarhei. 



E, SANDERIANA, Bchh. /.—One of the most wonderful and distinct Orchids 

 that has been introduced for many years, and one which produces the largest 

 flowers of any plant of the Vanda tribe known up to the present time. It was 



