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which are even further apart. Fortunately there is an index, in which all 

 but three are included under " elegans," and the others have only strayed 



The next chapter is a " Legend of Roezl " ; after which we have the 

 Cattleya House again, followed by stories of C. Bowringiana and C. 

 Mossiffi. A house of Cypripedium insigne is then considered, and we find 

 descriptions of a score of the more distinct varieties, including "R. H. 

 Measures," whose size, we are told, is" astonishing "—the only clue we can 

 give to the dimensions is that Harefield Hall var. is " smaller." Before 

 passing on to the Phalaenopsis House the author has a story of Cattleya 

 Skinneri aiba to relate, and afterwards of Vanda Sanderiana and Phalae- 

 nopsis Sanderiana, after which we come to " Hybrid Cattleyas and Lselias," 

 with several pages of descriptions, and a list of unfiowered crosses in the 

 collection. We cannot enumerate all the headings, suffice it to say that 

 we have accounts of Laelia purpurata, the Calanthe House, Cattleya labiata 

 House, Cypripediums, the Cool House, Masdevallias, Oncidiums, tvx., 

 interspersed with amusing stories and legends of various popular species 

 which have a " history." These we shall not scrutinize too closely. They 

 are intended to "amuse the general reader," and they will serve their purpose. 

 One, however, which occurs under the heading of Cattleya labiata, we may 

 mention in passing. The story of this plant has been told several times, 

 and once more we read that those in search of it " explored every district 

 which Swainson could possibly have visited, but of Cattleya labiata they 

 found no sign," and again, "Certainly Swainson did not find his plants in 

 the neighbourhood where they exist at this time." Had Mr. Boyle referred 

 to the Orchid Review, volume viii., pages 362 to 365, he would have 

 written the story very differently. But then he remarks that " not every- 

 one files the Orchid Review." And note the result ! 



The coloured plates are sixteen in number, and we need only remark that 

 they are in Mr. Macfarlane's well-known style. The frontispiece is Zygocolax 

 X woodlandense, and wishing to know its history we turn to the Index, but 

 fail to find it. On page 131, however, we find the remark :— " Very notable 

 is the Zygocolax hybrid, Leopardinns (Zygopetalum maxillare X Colav 

 jugosus), of which we give an illustration," while in the List of Illustrations 

 we find it given as "Zygocolax, Woodlands variety," and thus we at length 

 discover that the plant is Zygocolax X leopardinus, whose history, by the 

 way, can be traced back to 1886. In the case of Cypripedium X Dr. 

 Ryan we are even less fortunate. There is a fine coloured plate opposite 

 page 219, and we look for its history. The Index fails us, and we search 

 the fourteen pages devoted to the genus in vain. Again, take Cypripedium 

 Boissierianum var. Bungerothii. We refer to the Index, and are told to 

 " see reticulatum" which we do, and are sent to page 202. We go there 



