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purpuratum, are all promising. Catasetums are in full season, and their 
flowers vary a great deal in shape and colour. The following species are 
now in season: — albo-sanguineum, callosum, Christyanum, discolor, 
fimbriatum, macrocarpum, uncatum, Bungerothii, and X_ splendens. 
Dendrobium Phalenopsis is now beginning to throw up its spikes, and 
will soon be in flower, and, before leaving this house, we may 
mention that Mormodes_ buccinator, Cogniauxii, pardinum and_ its 
variety unicolor, are already in flower, some of them being very 
strongly scented. 
Passing to the Intermediate department, which is gaily decorated, we 
notice among the Cattleyas, which are now forming a beautiful sight, the 
peculiar C. elongata, guttata, Leopoldi, Harrisoniana, and Loddigesii, the 
two latter being excellent varieties. There are also the beautiful little 
Lelia Dayana, with the allied L. pumila and prestans, which are all very 
pretty. Cattleya Dowiana aurea blooms during September, and is 
decidedly one of the richest of the genus, and finally C. Bowringiana, with 
its variety violacea, will soon be in flower. Lelio-cattleya X elegans is 
now in full season, and its fine spikes are among the most effective in 
the house. 
Several Oncidiums are still in flower, and others are following on, 
amongst which are O. incurvum, Geertianum, pretextum, ornithorhynchum, 
and pulvinatum. O. varicosum, and its variety Rogersii, will soon open 
their first blooms. Miltonia spectabilis and its varities, bicolor, radiata, 
virginalis, and the beautiful Moreliana, will be at their best, and few 
Orchids surpass them at this season. Epidendrums radicans and Wallisii 
are stillin flower. The little Brassia Wageneri, with its greenish flowers, 
is very pretty, and the first flowers of the beautiful Vanda ccerulea are just 
appearing. 
In the Cool house, only a few things are to be expected. Several 
Odontoglossums are sending forth their spikes, amongst which may be 
mentioned O. grande, Schlieperianum, Edwardii, and retusum. O. 
Harryanum is in flower, and there are still odd spikes of earlier species. 
A few Masdevallia are still to be seen, and among them M. floribunda, 
which is now flowering very freely, and M. maculata. M. acrochordonia ' 
is now opening. Stenoglottis longifolia is very effective, also the free- 
blooming Spathoglottis Fortunei with its handsome yellow flowers. 
In each department the plants are rapidly completing their growth for 
the season, giving promise of a renewed display of flowers in the future. 
ODONTO. ° 
