ith a pinkish tone; lip crimson, veined with yellow.

_Owenianus_ (bicolor Oweniae x Humblotti).--Sepals and petals milk-white,
tinged with purplish brown. Lip like crimson velvet, orange at the base.

_Ashworthianus_ (Mannii x maculatus).--Sepals and petals deep yellow,
touched with ochre, lip similarly coloured, marked with heavy radiating
lines of chocolate.

_Cooksoni_ (Wallichii x tuberculosus).--The sepals and petals are those of
Wallichii--buff tinged with reddish purple, china-white at back; the lip
is that of tuberculosus--side-lobes yellow, spotted with crimson; disc
white, with purple spots.

_Marthae_ (Blumei x tuberculosus).--Sepals and petals pale buff. The
large lip white, touched with pale rose, and thickly covered with
golden-brown spots.

Very notable is the Zygo-colax hybrid, _Leopardinus_ (Zygopetalum
maxillare x Colax jugosus), of which we give an illustration.

Here is also the Zygopetalum hybrid, _Perrenoudii_ (intermedium x
Guatieri).--Sepals and petals green, heavily blurred with brown. Lip
violet, deepening to purple.

Against the back wall of this house stands a little grove of Thunias
Bensoniae and Marshalliana; the former magenta and purple, and the latter
white with yellow throat, profusely striped with orange red. The wondrous
intricacy of design so notable in the colouring of orchids is nowhere more
conspicuous than in Thunia Marshalliana.

THE CYMBIDIUM HOUSE

Our 'specimen' Cymbidiums, that is, the large plants, are scattered up and
down in other houses; for singly they are ornaments, and together their
great bulk and long leaves would occupy too much space. Here are only
small examples, or small species, planted out upon a bed of tufa amidst
ferns and moss and begonias, Cyrtodeira Chontalensis, and the pretty
'African violet,' St. Paulii ionantha.

Cymbidiums are not showy, as the term applies to Cattleyas and Dendrobes.
Their colour, if not white, is brown or yellow, with red-brown markings.
We hear indeed of wonders to be introduced some day--of a gigantic
species, all golden, which dwells in secluded valleys of the Himalayas,
and another, bright scarlet, in Madagascar. In fact, this was collected
again and again by M. Humblot and shipped to Europe; but every piece died
before arrival. At length M. Humblot carried some home himself, and a few
survived. Sir Trevor Lawrence bought two, I believe, but they died before
flowering. So did all the rest.

But if the Cymbidiums