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sists of two petaline lobes instead of one. The upper or back 
segment of the flower, which in the erect-flowered group 
answers to a sepal, corresponds with a petal in this reverse- 
flowered group, to which some of the very finest varieties 
known, including the subject of our illustration, belong. 
Omitting, as in the previous list, the novelties which are yet 
hardly purchasable, we will mention a few examples from 
among the finer sorts of this section:— 
Vulcan. —Brilliant crimson scarlet, with a flush of deep crimson 
on the lip-like segments. A much richer colour than Brejich- 
leyensis, which is, however, probably one of the most useful 
for planting in masses, to produce a striking effect. 
JBertha JRahourdin. —White, with all the lower segments flushed 
with clear rosy purple, through which runs a feathered 
marking of a deex3er shade of the same colour. The marking 
of this variety is very rich and eflective. 
Berenice. —Itosy salmon, marked with deeper, or salmony red 
streaks, the lower segments marked with rosy crimson, the 
petaline ones in a feather-like, the sepaline in a bar-like form. 
Vesta. —Blush white, the two lower petaline segments of a rich 
creamy tint in the centre, and, as well as the lower sepaline 
one, boldly feathered with rosy purple. 
Empress. —Blush white, blotched with rosy streaks ; the lower 
segments with bold rosy purple feathers. 
Goliath. —Deep salmon colour, with the lower segments feathered 
with crimson purple; similar in colour to Brincesse Clotilde, 
one of the erect flowered group. 
Neptune. —Salmony red, the lower segments with a faint dash of 
cream colour, suflused with rosy purple. 
Sulpkureus. —Creamy white, the lower petaline divisions straw 
colour, and, as well as the lower sepaline one, purple feathered. 
Calypso —Blush, with salmony streaks; the two lower petals 
yellowish, with a crimson purple feather; the lower se]3al 
with a bold stripe of the same colour. 
The foregoing memoranda were made from some finely 
bloomed plants in the collections of Mr. W. Barnes, of Cam¬ 
berwell, and Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Son, of St. John’s 
Wood. 
Both the groups above indicated are distinct enough in 
their aspect to be worth perpetuating; and by selection there 
is no doubt that such deviations of structure as are now occa¬ 
sionally though rarely met with, may be entirely obliterated, 
and the two groups rendered quite fixed and permanent. 
The deviations to which we allude, though occasionally to be 
seen are not frequent. Sometimes, however, it will be found 
that the lower and earlier flowers differ from the upper ones, 
which are developed later; and sometimes those situated on 
one side of the flower-spike will differ from those on the other 
side. These discrepancies might soon be removed by careful 
selection. In addition to the properties of colour, size, sub- 
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