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curious freaks in flowers, but their inconsistency shows some little rule. 
pury is a little gem, blooming for many months, 
and deliciously fragrant. Different plants vary much in markings, but all 
are lovely. Oncidium Lanceanum, called here ‘“Orelha do Burro,” or 
Ass’s Ear, is the best of the Oncidiums. — It grows freely and yields great 
branching spikes of bloom from November to March. The flowers last long 
in beauty, and are very fragrant. We have some plants larger than a 
bushel basket, with more than a dozen tall spikes. Galeandra Devoniana 
and a small white flowered species, as far as I can find not described, bloom 
from January to July. The former often attains a height of three feet, and 
develops its great fragrant flowers in profusion. The latter is always in 
bloom,.in fact will kill itself by blooming; it is very rare, and, although 
not showy, is a very attractive plant. The Rio Negro variety of 
pidend bi if indeed I am correct in my name, is a very 
beautiful Orchid, but, unfortunately, it is very difficult to transport. Out 
of fifty plants sent me from Mafaos, which were only a week in the case, 
I only saved ten. Ofa lot taken to New York in the spring of 1882 not 
one survived, in spite of every personal care. The pseudobulb is hollow, 
with two terminal coriaceous leaves, from between which the flower spike 
springs. This is long, and, according to the strength of the pseudobulb, 
bears from two to fifteen large white flowers, which somewhat resemble and 
are as beautiful as those of Phalaenopsis grandiflora; they last weeks in 
perfection, and are deliciously fragrant in the morning. This plant, in con- 
trast to the Trinidad E. bicornutum, which is a shy bloomer, flowers very 
freely ; every little pseudobulb gives a flower spike, and we have seen a 
large plant on a tree ina neighbour's garden which had twenty long spikes 
- of bloom, not one with less than a dozen flowers. 
There is one other very beautiful Amazonian Orchid—probably 
undescribed—a very lovely Zygopetalum of the Z. maxillare or rostratum 
group, which yields semi-pendent spikes of large white flowers, the lip 
varying from chocolate to deep rich blue. The individual flowers last six 
weeksin beauty. The plant is scandent, producing its pseudobulbs from 
a running root stock, and each pseudobulb gives two spikes of bloom from 
the lower leaves on the opposite sides. 
Our first Orchids not Amazonian came from Bahia. They were 
generally long-leaved Epidendrums of little value, but plants of 
Epidend dick Cattleya Aclandie, guttata Leopoldi, amethysto- 
glossa, Harri and hysti Lelia xanthina, Miltonia spectabilis 
and candida, Oncidium Forbesii and Harrisonianum, and Leptotes bicolor 
proved great acquisitions. They all, though weak plants, did well under 
similar treatment to the others, and made healthy growth and roots. 
(To be concluded.) 
