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24 ORCHIDS.

CYPRIPEDIUM (SELENIPEDIUM)
LONGIFOLIUM.

A striking Orchid, discovered on the Cordilleras of Chiriqui at an elevation from
5,000 to 8,000 feet, and thus described by Professor Reichenbach in the Gardeners'
Chronicle, 1869, page 1,206:—
"The flowers remind one very much of Selenipedium dariense. It is easily distinguished
by the two angles at the inner base of the channelled claw or unguis of the
"lip. Selenipedium Hartwegii stands even nearer, yet it appears to be very distinct
"by its much larger and longer bracts, and by an open channel of the unguis of the
"lip, and by some discrepancies in the lip. Our plant appears to have the habit of the
"old Selenipedium caudatum. The inflorescence has bracts very much like those of
"Heliconias. The flowrs are greenish, very shiny outside; the dorsal sepal is nearly
"oblong—triangular, with a brownish border. The inferior sepal is much broader
"and longer, or even quite as long, as the lip. The petals have a broad sub-cordate
"base, and taper into a tail, greenish, with white borders, and two brown streaks at
"the base and brown at the ends, these tails being much shorter than those of the
"long-tailed species. The lip is highly curious, for the basilar margins of the unguis
"overlapping one another, so that there is no channel left."

Price 21s. to 63s. each.

EPIDENDRUM SYRINGOTHYRSUS.

A most beautiful and free-flowering Epidendrum, introduced by us from Peru. It is
certainly one of the finest of its species. It flowers in panicles of seventy or eighty
blooms, the flowering growths being from two to three feet in length. The throat is
white, sepals and petals light purple, the labellum tipped with pink.

Price 105s. each.

VANDA CÆRULESCENS.

(REICHENBACH.)

See Illustration.

For the introduction of this Orchid gem we are indebted to Lieutenant-Colonel
Benson, who discovered it growing in Burmah, at an elevation of 1,500 feet above
the sea.

Though the flowers are much smaller than those of the well-known Vanda cærulea,
this species is EQUALLY worthy of cultivation, the sepals and petals being of a decided