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M. HARRYANA SANGUINEA, Uort—K distinct and handsome form, having 

 large brilliantly coloured flowers of a reddish crimson, flushed with orange.— 

 New Grenada. 



M. HARRYANA SPLENDENS, Hort.—A. very high coloured and beautiful 

 variety, having broad finely-shaped flowers of an intense mauve-magenta, the 

 veins being distinctly marked with rich crimson.— ^Vetu Grenada. 



Fig.— Eciclwnbachia, 2ud scr., i. t. 20. 



M. HARRYANA VERSICOLOR, Moore.— This is the most distinctly marked 

 variety we have yet met with. The flowers are large, almost circular, and 

 enlivened by a deep yellow eye ; the lateral sepals have a ground colour of 

 bright magenta, variously marked with rich maroon-crimson ; in some instances 

 the markings take the form of a conspicuous band on each of the outer margins, 

 in other oases they consist of blotches of irregular outline variously distributed 

 on the surface. This tine variety was first noted among the choice Orchids 

 cultivated in the ducal gardens at Trentham, and we have also seen it in the 

 grand collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford Lodge, Dorking. — 

 -Yea' Grenada. 



Nl. HIEROGLYPHICA, Echh.f.—A charming species, first flowered by W. Lee, 

 Esq., late of Leatherhead. It is described as follows : — " It is lovely, much like 

 ..V. Arminii, but quite distinct in its long tails and in the shape of its sepals, 

 which are much less rounded, and more triangular ; the tails are mauve on the 

 upper half, the lower part being orange-coloured; bodies of sepals light mauve, 

 purple outside, white at the base ; the dorsal sepal has three Indian-purple 

 lines, and four manifold rows of small spots of same colour; all the remainder 

 of the inside of the sepals is purple ; there is, however, an Indian-purple line 

 on the mid-nerves of the lateral sepals; petals whitish-sulphur; lip with 

 innumerable small purple spots on the disk, purple at the base, darker purple 

 in front " {Grardeners' Chronicle, N.S., 1885, xxiv. p. 584). Blooms in June. — ■ 

 U. S. of Colombia,. 



M. HINCKSIANA, Rchh. /.—Another hybrid, raised by Capt. Hincks, of 

 Breckenbrough, Thirsk, between M. tovareiisis and M. ignea. " The foliage is 

 just intermediate between the two parents, having 'a longer footstalk than 

 tovarensis, and not quite so long a one as that of ignea.' The flower is very 

 graceful on its slender peduncle, the first one being one-flowered, but the 

 parentage of tovareiuis might give hopes for more flowers. It has a slender 

 short white tube, a very short triangular median sepal, light ochre, running 

 out in a declined ochre tail, orange at top ; the pair sepals are quite those of 

 If. tovarensis, but narrower, light ochre, the short tails orange ; petals ligulate, 

 emarginate at the top, obtuse-angled over the base, with a keel running inside 

 quite as in ignea; lip ligulate acute, with two little short semi-oblong keels in 

 the middle in lieu of the longer ones of M. tovarensis " (H. G. Reichenbach, in 

 Gardeners' Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1887, ii. p. 2U).— Garden hybrid. 



M. HOUTTEANA, Rohh. f. — A distinct and free-flowering species of a very 

 pleasino- character. It forms dense tufts of linear-lanceolate acute leaves, 

 which are from 10 to 12 inches in length by about ^ inch in breadth, thin in 



