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weeks, and produces its flowers when not more than from 2 to 3 feet high. The 

 plant, which is evergreen, succeeds well along with Vanda and Al'ridea. This 

 plant was formerly included in the genus Vanda, and, indeed, is to be found in 

 many collections under the name of Vanda Loicii. Baron von Hruby, of Peckau, 

 Austria, flowered in 1883 a large plant of this species which bore as many as 

 twenty-two spikes of flowers, which is the greatest number we ever heard of. 

 Mr. Bergman, gardener to Baron A. de Eothschild, at Eerrieres, flowered in 

 the same year a flne plant furnished with eleven spikes, which averaged about 

 9 feet in length. — Borneo. 



Fia.—Bot.Mag., t. 5475 ; JBatem. Second Orcli. PI., t. 161 ; Warner, Sel. Orch. PI., 

 ii. t. 4 ; nu. Sort., t. 417 ; Pwi/dt, Leu Orch., t. 46 ; L' OrcUdophUe, 188S, p. 701 ; 

 Id., 1884, p. 178 ; Beichenbachia, ii. t. 71 ; Bctue Hort. Beige, 1890, p. 60, t. 6 ; Veitck's 

 Man. Orch. PI., vii. pp. 9, 12. 



Syn. — Vanda Lowii ; Araehnanthe Loioli. 



R. IVIATUTINA, Lindl. — A very old and rare species, of dwarf habit, flowering 

 when not more than a foot in height ; it has stoutish speckled stems, producing 

 thick fleshy roots, and ligulate obtuse unequally bilobed distichous leaves ; the 

 flowers, which are distinctly set on the rachi.s, grow in axillary panicled racemes 

 on purple scapes, and are about 2| inches in depth, with the dorsal sepal linear- 

 ligulate acute, orange, the lateral ones parallel directed downwards, rather 

 dilated near the base, orange with a few deeper orange spots ; the petals are 

 narrow linear acute, orange with smaller deep orange spots, and the lip is very 

 minute, white with a red central spot. We saw a fine plant of this flowering in 

 the collection of Baron A. de Eothschild, Ferriferes, under the care of Mr. 

 Bergman, the spike bearing twenty flowers. It blossoms in July and August. 

 The plant figured under this name by Lindley in the Botanical Register (184-S, 

 t. 41) is S. micrantlia ; the flowers are small, but more numerous and more 

 densely set than in B. maiutina itself, and the colours are also brighter and 

 more effective. — Java. 



Fig. — Pescatorea, t. 12 ; Blmne, Taiell., xxiv ; Xi-nia Orch., i. t. 35, f. 1. 

 Syu. — Aerides matutina. 



R. ROHANIANA, iJc/i6./.— This plant is closely allied to B. Loivii, but differs 

 in having shorter leaves, there appears to be also a difference in the keel of 

 the lip, and it produces four basilar flowers instead of two as in B. LovAi. 

 The ordinary flowers are 2^ — 3 inches in diameter, sepals and petals white, 

 distinctly blotched with dark blood colour, the four lower ones having a ground 

 colour of rich orange-yellow freely and thickly spotted with blackish-purple. 

 It was dedicated by Eeichenbach to Prince .Camille de Eohan of Sichrow, in 

 Bohemia, who flowered it for the first time in Europe in 1854. We recently 

 saw this well flowered in the collection of M. le Due de Massa, Chateau de 

 Pranconville, France. Flower.s in September and October. — Borneo. 



Fia.—Bevtic Sort., 1879, p. 210 (plate) ; Orchid Album, x. t. 435. 

 Syn. — Vanda Bohaniarta. 



R. STORIEI, Bclib.f. — A handsome species, "just matching the celebrated 

 B. coccinea,or rather surpassing it," for the parts of the flower, though one-sixth 

 shorter than in that species, are much broader, and the lip much larger ; the 

 stem grows 10 or 12 feet in height, and has distichous somewhat fleshy, dark 



