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freely watered, but the pot must be well drained, so as to allow the water to pass off freely. Shading is necessary 

 during bright sunshine. In winter it should be placed in a drier atmosphere, and especial care must be taken that no 

 water be allowed to lodge in the folds of the young leaves —Botaridcal Magazine, t. 4541. 



Sir W. Hooker was mistaken in saying that it had not been previously figured. An excellent representation o 

 it was given in the Botanical Register for 1844, t. 37, where will be found the following remarks :— 



" From the other purple species allied to it, this is readily known by the leaves as well as by the flowers. C. ver- 

 sicolor has leaves smooth on both sides ; G. purpurea downy on both sides, especially beneath ; while this has down 

 only oa the underside. G. versicolor has white sepals and petals; G. purpurea, and this, purple ones. While, 

 however, C. purpurea agrees in the colour of its flowers, its lip is altogether different, being very narrow, with the 

 lateral lobes quite round. 



" ft Masuca should be potted in turfy heath-mould, mixed with a few pieces of potsherds. In summer it should 

 receive an ample supply of water at its roots ; and where it can be avoided, little should be allowed to fall on its 

 leave*, otherwise the young shoots will damp off. It enjoys a humid atrnosphere and a high temperature; but as 

 the leaves are very delicate, they will soon become scorched if shading is not carefully attended to. In winter little 

 Avater will be required ; still it is necessary to keep the soil damp enough to preserve the bulbs from shrivelling." 



Cypripedium La.whenceanum. A species found by Mr. Burbidge in Borneo, and sent 

 by him to Messrs. Veitch. The numerous species of Cypripedium which have been brought 

 into this country, and the many fine hybrids that have within the last few years made 

 their appearance, have made Orchid growers somewhat difficult to satisfy with anything 

 new amongst them. But this is a very distinct kind, and may with advantage be added 

 to even the most select collections. This plant, coming as it does from Borneo, will 

 doubtless require quite as much heat as any of the kinds in cultivation, needing a good 

 supply of water whilst growing, and though less must be given when growth is complete, 

 they must never be allowed to get so dry as species of Orchids that form pseudo-bulbs. 



Ground colour of leaves very pale green, with dark mosaic blotches. Flowers equal in size to those of C. barbatum 

 majtts. The upper sepal white, with purplish shining veins running through to the edge. Petals narrow, purplish at 

 the top, and with the usual fleshy dark worts on the limb. Lip very large, purplish-brown above, yellowish below, 

 covered with numerous worts internally. The staminocle is a special ornament. — Gardener's Chronicle, N. S., vol. 

 xiii., p. 780. 



Lilium sPECiosiJjtf, vail GLORiosoiDES. This plant was exhibited by Messrs. Veitch at 

 one of the Royal Horticultural Society's meetings at South Kensington, during the summer 

 of 1880. It was discovered by Mr. Maries, in the mountain districts of Central China, 

 in which country and Japan he was collecting for Messrs. Veitch. It differs from the 

 ordinary forms of L. speciosum in being more slender in habit ; the leaves especially are 

 much narrower. In the plant shown the spotting on the segments of the flower was much 

 brighter, and the segments themselves were more twisted than we have seen in any of the 

 varieties of this Lily that have hitherto appeared. In all probability it will succeed with 

 treatment of a similar kind to that which the Japanese Lilies thrive under, the most im- 

 portant point with which is never to disturb them when their roots are in motion, as they, 

 in common with all Lilies, are extremely sensitive to the slightest injury to their feeding 

 fibres, which are most at rest just as the stems die down, at which period whatever potting 

 or re-planting has to be done should be carried out. 



Stems slender, green, two to three feet long. Leaves twenty to twenty-five, lanceolate, -suberect, with the usual 

 short flattened petiole, the lower ones five-nerved, three to four inches long, three-quarters to one inch broad, the 

 upper ones dwindling doAvn gradually to a length of one inch. Flower solitary in the specimen seen, the divisions 

 oblong-lanceolate, four inches long, one inch broad in the lower part, sharply reflexed in the upper three-quarters, 

 much crisped in the reflexed part, pure white in the upper half, with a green keel down the back, copiously covered 

 in the reflexing portion of the lower half with scarlet papillose spots, which in the neighbourhood of the keel are 

 exaggerated into columnar papillae, a quarter to a third of an inch long, the basal connivent portion of the segment 

 not at all papillose. Filaments spreading equally from the centre of the flower, more than half as long as the 



