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[February, 
a variety with pure white sepals and petals, and faintly-tinted pale rose-coloured lip. 
The Vandeous division is more extensive. There is Vanda Denisoniana^ from Bur- 
mah, welcome as a handsome white-flowered Vanda; Saccolahiumhigihhum^ 2 , curioViS 
little plant, with bunches of small waxy-looking yellow flowers of great beauty when 
closely examined; Aerides japonicum^ from Japan, remarkable as a greenhouse 
species, with racemes of neat white purple-lipped flowers; and Cymbidium tigrinuni^ 
from Moulmein, a pretty dwarf species, with large ohve-green flowers, having the 
white lip marked by transverse bands of purple. Several fine Oncids have made their 
appearance, e.g., Oncidiwn Rogersii, a splendid variety of the Brazilian 0. varicosum, 
with panicles of extremely showy flowers, having a clear yellow reniform lobate lip 
(see plate) ; 0. splendidum, from Guatemala, also a showy-flowered species, with 
a large, obreniform, bright-yellow lip, narrowed to a broadish claw-like form at 
the base; 0. euxanthinum, another Brazilian plant, in the way of Eogersii, but 
smaller, and having the bilobed lip smooth at the edge, and of remarkable sub¬ 
stance ; and 0. fmcatum, from Peru, with the flowers purple, tipped with white, 
the large oblong-flabellate lip orange-coloured bordered with purple on the disk. 
Odontoglossum Alexandrce Warneri is a very beautiful and distinct variety of 
that exceptionally fine species; it has rosy-stained sepals, with a few large deep 
bronzy spots, large white fringed petals, and a white lip yellow towards the base, 
and spotted in the middle portion. 0. triumphans MarshaUii is also a most 
charming Odontoglot, the sepals and petals being thickly blotched with 
cinnamon brown, the petals toothed, and the lip white with a frilled yellow 
crest and brown tip. In Brassia Lawrenceana longissima we have a 
magnificent Costa Eica plant, with deep tawny orange sepals 7 in. long, marked 
with a few large purple spots, the lanceolate pale yellow lip of which is spotted 
near the base. Miltonia virginalis, from Brazil, may be compared to a pure 
white M. spectabilis, but with a large radiate blotch of rich violet at the base of 
the lip ; while M. Begnellii purpurea is a beautiful dark violet-lipped variety of 
that species. Pescatorea (Zygopetalum) Wallisii, an inhabitant of Central America, 
comes to enrich our stores with its creamy-white purple-lipped flowers, in which 
the front lobe of the hp is of a deeper purple, and the white ruff is conspicuous 
towards the base. Mormodes uncia alias Greenii, a remarkably handsome acquisi¬ 
tion, has the large racemose flowers yellow, thickly spotted with deep red, and 
the fringed front lobe of the lip is of a purple-lilac colour. The Vanilla group 
gives us the Vanilla Phalcenopsis, of Madagascar, a beautiful leafless scandent 
epiphyte, with large blush-white flowers, having a deep orange trumpet-shaped 
lip, rosy on the outside. Finally, among the Lady’s Slippers, we have to 
enumerate as novelties Cypripedium pardinum, niveum, and Parishii^ all of 
Indian origin, the first related to venustum, the second to concolor, and the third 
to glanduliferum—three very distinct and strikingly beautiful species, worthy a 
place in the choicest orchid collection.—M. 
