ing state, and the young plants, the offsets from the parent 
bulbs, being generally an inch high before the old flower-stems 
have died down. I finished my repotting and taking off offsets 
or runners about a fortnight ago, and should no mishap befall 
me during the winter, I shall be almost driven to plant them 
out in the spring and make a bed of Disas instead of or beside 
a bed of Geraniums —thus bearing out the anticipation we 
formed three years ago, that it might hereafter be used round 
small pieces of ornamental water in gardens. 
The variety now figured has larger and better-proportioned 
flowers than the ordinary one, while the colour in all the parts 
is much richer, and the green tips which exist in the lateral 
sepals of grandiflora are wanting in suggerbci, which obtained a 
first-class certificate from the Floral Committee of the Eoyal 
Horticultural Society, when exhibited by Mr. Leach. We 
should add, that the Plate gives a very inadequate idea of the 
beauty of the plant, as six, seven, and in some instances eight 
flowers are produced on a single stem.* 
* A magnificent drawing of it appears in part ix. of Warner’s ‘ Orchidaceous 
Plants,’ just published, from the artistic pencil of Mr. Andrews. 
