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a plant of Epidendrum Medusze was conspicuous, bearing nine of its 
remarkable red-purple, fringed flowers on five growths. 
Of Masdevallias there were numerous kinds, not only of the brilliant 
flowered group, and the Chimera section ; but such interesting little plants 
as M. peristeria, Wag , corniculata, tridactylites, and several others 
which were placed round the edge of the water tank. M. bella and the 
forms of M. Chimera, of course, were in hanging baskets. 
Other interesting plants in flower noted were the pretty little Cymbidium 
tigrinum, with two racemes and half-a-dozen flowers, several good forms of 
Epidendrum Wallisii, the rare Epidendrum Frederici-Gulielmi, Ccelogyne 
pandurata, with a spike of eight fine flowers, the rare Brassia maculata, 
Promenza xanthina, Aérides Houlletianum and Fieldingii, Saccolabium 
ampullaceum, Vanda Parishii, some finely flowered Cypripedium barbatum, 
and others. The plants are continually being changed as they pass out of 
flower and succeeding ones come in, and thus a brilliant display is 
maintained throughout the season. 
VANDA xX MISS JOAQUIM. 
TuHIs very beautiful hybrid has now flowered for the first time,in Europe, 
in the collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Dorking. Its 
history was given at page 245 of our first volume, when it flowered at Singa- 
pore. It was raised by the lady whose name it bears, from Vanda teres and 
V. Hookeriana—the former presumably the seed parent—and well combines 
the characters of the two parents. The habit is almost precisely that of 
V. teres, but rather more climbing, the plant being seven feet high, and the 
colour of the flower also closely resembles the same species, while the shape 
of the flower, and particularly the lip, is almost that of V. Hookeriana. The 
front lobe of the lip is broader than long, measuring two inches across, and 
flat; the side lobes do not meet at the tips, as in V. teres; the spur is 
smaller, and more acute ; and the disc of the lip has much less yellow on it. 
As the flower becomes old it gradually changes almost to white, except the 
inside of the side lobes and base of the front lobe, the latter being covered 
with innumerable minute reddish dots. In order to mature the growths 
and induce it to flower, Mr. White has kept the plant in the sun as much 
as possible, and the result is a fine raceme of flowers. It is a very beautiful 
hybrid, with a much better constitution than V. Hookeriana, which it most 
resembles in the flowers, and is certainly a great acquisition. 
