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The Cypripedium house contains a fine collection of choice varieties, 
the majority not now in bloom, but there were many C. Lawrenceanum, 
good examples of C. Helvetia, bellatulum, Helen, glaucophyllum, and 
several hybrids of the latter, which prove rather disappointing, being dingy 
in colour and inferior to their parent in point of beauty. The plants are 
grown mostly in yellow loam, and are in excellent health. M. Lambeau 
pointed out quantities of seedlings, and remarked that here they germinate 
with the greatest freedom, while if sown on fibre they are washed down 
among the compost and lost. . Miltonia Roezlii grows well here, and was in 
bloom. 
Passing along the Corridor, where several Oncidium sphacelatum were 
in bloom, with Angraecum sesquipedale, Cattleya Skinneri, and a few others, 
we came to the large workroom, where M. Lambeau showed us a very fine 
series of paintings, among which we noted Miltonia Bleuana var. Peetersiz 
with a deep rosy blotch on the sepals and petals and a pale margin, M. 
vexillaria x var. Leopoldii, a large rosy flower with a crimson mask on the 
lip, Catasetum splendens var. imperiale, Odontonia Firminii, Lzeliocattleya 
Firminii, Odontoglossum crispum Souverin, white with red spots round the 
lip, Odontioda Coronation and Vogelsang, both very handsome, Cattleya 
Trianz coerulea, with a second painting because the flowers had altered so 
much when the plant became strong, the handsome C. Enid var. Firmin 
Lambeau, C. Warscewiczii alba, C. Hardyana alba, and another very 
charming ally, from C. Mantinii (Bowringiana X Dowiana aurea) recrossed 
with C. D. aurea, giving a flower like the latter in shape, but rather smaller, 
and with white sepals and petals and a very rich crimson lip. It is 
another case of white coming from the union of yellow and purple. 
We congratulate M. Lambeau, and his able gardener, M. de Munter, on 
their success, for the collection is indeed in excellent condition, and the 
seedlings. are so numerous that the building of additional houses is 
contemplated, and for this the necessary land is available. We shall hope 
to record some of the results from time to time. 
EPIDENDRUM AMBIGUUM.—A plant of this graceful and pretty Central 
American species is now flowering at Kew, having been obtained from 
Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans, under the name of E. Candollei. It 
originally flowered in the collection of S. Rucker, Esq., of Wandsworth, in 
July, 1846, and was sent to Dr. Lindley for determination, and figured in 
the Botanical Register (1847, t. 53), under the name of E. elatum, Batem. 
When Lindley came to revise the genus the mistake was detected, and the 
Species was then described under the name of E. ambiguum, Lindl. (Fol. Orch., 
Epidendr., p. 18), with the habitat “ Wild in Guatemala.” The flowers 
were described as pale yellowish green, very sweet scented, and the lip 
