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largest genus, having upwards of a hundred species, after excluding Peristylis 
and Plantanthera, which were united with it in the Genera Plantarum. Bonatea 
and Platycoryne, which had recently been united to Habenaria, are also here 
kept separate. Satyrium also is strongly represented, being now credited with 
thirty-nine species, while twenty species of Disa are also found north of the 
tropic of Capricorn. Two or three of these are very striking, though none 
are yet in cultivation. A large number of novelties are described, and, from 
the vast tracts of country still imperfectly explored, it is pretty certain that 
the Orchid flora of this large area is not yet nearly exhausted. 
ORCHID PORTRAITS. 
CaTTLEYA X Maroni.—Gard. Chron., Nov. 5, p. 332, fig. 91; Gard. Mag., 
Nov. 5, pp. 718, 719, with fig. ; Journ. of Hort., Nov. 10, pp. 360, 361, fig. 62. 
CATTLEYA VELUTINA.—Gard. Chron., Nov. 5, p. 533; fig. 99. 
CypripepIuM CALcEoLus, L.—Rev. Hort. Belge, Nov., p. 247, fig. 49. 
DENDROBIUM SANGUINEUM, Rolfe.—Gard. Mag., Nov. 19, p. 754, with 
fig. 
MAXILLARIA STRIATA, Rolfe.—Gard. Mag., Oct. 29, p. 705, with fig. 
MiLTONIA X Brinoti.—Gard. Mag., Nov. 12, p. 736 with fig. 
MILTONIA X BLUNTU LUBBERSIANA.—Gard. Mag., Nov. 12, p. 736, with 
fig. 
MILTONIA X LEUCOGLOssA.—Gard. Mag., Nov. 12, p. 736, with fig. 
PACHYSTOMA THOMSONIANUM VAR PUNCTULATA, André in Rev. Hort., 
Novy. I, p. 504, with plate. 
PAPHIOPEDIUM VILLOsUM, Pfitz.—Rev. Hort. Belge., Nov., p, 253, fig. 53- 
PHRAGMIPEDIUM CAUDATUM, Rolfe.—kRev. Hort. Belge, Nov., p. 251, fig. 
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CORRESPONDENCE, &ec. 
( di earn not answered here may find replies to their queries on other pages, wind in 
cases, for various reasons, the ney have to stand over for a future issue.) 
H.W.A.—A fairly good form, which may improve as it gets stronger. These secondary 
hybrids are becoming very numérous, and, when the parentage is lost, very difficult to ik 
with. We would suggest that only those which have some distinctive character, or that a 
improvements on existing kinds, should be named. Others may be kept until thei 
character is clearly proved, after which, the inferior ones should be thrown away.. All fits 
crosses between species, however, we think should be recorded. 
. E.P.—There are several yellow forms of Cypripedium insigne, but none, we believe, 
equal to Sanderze. 
_- We have received a catalogue of Brazilian Orchids offered for sale by Messrs. John 
Gomas and Co., Gateacre Nurseries, near Liverpool, collected, it is said, in a district 
hitherto unexplored. One supposed novelty has been named Leia retrias and the plant 
is figured, but in the absence of flowers we cannot say anything about i 
