perfect fairyland as viewed from the door. Leaving this house, we came to the Cattleya house where, although the collection of these plants is not large, there are nevertheless some fine varieties in bloom, more especially of _Lælia purpurata_ and the ever varying _Cattleya Mossiæ_. Altogether we were highly delighted with our visit, and greatly appreciated the hospitality of our host.—H. W. [Illustration: PL. 100. LYCASTE HARRISONIÆ EBURNEA.] LYCASTE HARRISONIÆ EBURNEA. [Plate 100.] Native of Brazil. Epiphytal. _Pseudobulbs_ ovate, tetragonal, furrowed, monophyllous, the young ones sheathed with brown membranaceous bracts. _Leaves_ broadly lanceolate acute, narrowed to the base, strongly ribbed or plicate, rigid, dark green. _Raceme_ two-flowered, radical, erect, shorter than the leaves, the peduncle furnished with appressed bracts. _Flowers_ large end attractive, nearly three inches across; _sepals_ ivory-white, waxy in texture; dorsal one oblong, obtuse, broader upwards, somewhat incurved, the lateral ones spreading horizontally, falcato-oblong, the lower side produced so as to cover the spur of the lip; _petals_ obovate, about as long as the dorsal sepal, of an ivory-white wax-like appearance and stout fleshy texture; _lip_ large, erect, narrowed at the base where it is enclosed by the lateral sepals, broader upwards, three-lobed: lateral lobes incurved and meeting the column, which they exceed, the margin with one or two broadish lobes primrose-yellow, covered with strongly marked forked reddish purple veins: front lobe smaller, oblong obtuse, recurved, undulated, white, with a few finer purple veins at the edge; _disk_ with a broad orange-yellow hairy crest, which is blunt and much thickened in front. _Column_ adnate for much of its length, and meeting the base of all the petals and sepals, the free portion incurved, semiterete. Lycaste Harrisoniæ eburnea, _Moore_, _supra_.