1874.] 
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our fickle climate, but also requiring as free a circulation of air as possible during 
the warm season. It would, in fact, provide all the advantages of cold pits, 
while it would be much more convenient. In winter, such a structure would bo 
certain to find its use as a mere shelter for hardy things which it is not desirable 
to leave exposed, such as shrubby plants in preparation for being forced. In a 
north aspect, such a house would be one of the best that could be contrived for 
retarding or prolonging the duration of exhibition plants.—T. M. 
TRITELEIA (MILLA) UNIFLORA IN POTS. 
jAVING grown this plant in pots for several years, I can fully endorse all 
that your correspondent Mr. Dean says (p. 86) respecting its adaptability for 
decorative uses ; I may add that the blooms are much prized amongst cut 
flowers. When used along with Poinsettia pulcherrima and a few sprays 
of fern-fronds, they make a cheerful mixture in glasses about February, and as 
they continue to bloom freely for a considerable time, a succession may be had for 
a long time by retarding a few pots. We find that if it is too much forced, the foliage 
gets drawn, and the blooms are neither so fine, nor do they last so long as when 
allowed to grow in a cool house.—A. H., Thoreshy. 
L^LIA FLAMMEA. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 
S MAGINE a flower of LcbUci dnnabarina increased three times, with its 
brightest vermilion ; give it a splendid yellow lip, with an amethyst-purplish 
f wavy anterior lacinia, and a small white column washed under the stigma 
with purple : thus you have the first-rank beauty, raised by Mr. Seden, at the 
Royal Exotic Nursery of Messrs. Veitch. Such is Professor Reichenbach’s word- 
painting of this strikingly beautiful hybrid orchid, which, on account of its 
uncommon and effective colouring, is one of the most welcome amongst the new 
acquisitions. We have to thank the Messrs. Veitch and Sons for the specimen 
which Mr. Fitch has sketched in the accompanying very faithful portrait. It was 
raised between Loelia cinndbarina and L. Pilcheri^ the former being in all pro¬ 
bability the seed-parent; and it was awarded a Botanical Certificate equivalent to 
one of the First-class, at the Royal Botanic Society’s Spring show on the 25th of 
March last. 
The plant, as will be seen from our illustration, is of moderate stature, and 
has slender cylindrical stems, each terminating in a solitary ligulate oblong 
fleshy leaf. The peduncles are terminal, somewhat elongated, and bear one or 
two flowers, possibly more ; the individual flowers are some four inches across, 
with ligulate acute sepals and petals of a brilliant cinnabar-orange colour; 
while the lip, which is oblong and trifld in front, has the yellow side-lobes 
folded over the column, and the intermediate one rounded, denticulate, 
somewhat crisped, and of a rich crimson hue, passing into crimson veins on 
the disk. 
