Vanda teres.—We recently received from J. Broome, Esq., Wood Lawn, Didsbury, Manchester, some fine spikes of blossoms of this most beautiful _Vanda_, and were surprised to hear that the plant had borne over two hundred and fifty flowers. What a glorious spectacle! On one of the spikes there were five of these charming flowers, each measuring three inches across. We saw this plant last year, and a most wonderful old specimen it is. It is trained cylindrically, and forms a grand massive plant, curious, withal, on account of its terete dark green climbing stems, thinly clothed with leaves, which are also terete, and of the same colour. No doubt it is one of the most distinct-looking of Orchids, and one, moreover, that few growers succeed in flowering well. It requires to be grown vigorously, with all the light that can be given to it in the growing season, during which period it should be well supplied with moisture. When at rest in winter it should have very little water, but should receive all the light and sun that can be secured for it, in order to cause the stems to ripen. When it shows signs of flowering, water may be supplied in order to induce the plant to throw out its flower-spikes more freely and with greater vigour.—B. S. W. [Illustration: PL. 103. DENDROBIUM DRACONIS.] DENDROBIUM DRACONIS. [Plate 103.] Native of Moulmein, Siam, and Cochin China. Epiphytal. _Stems_ robust, jointed, the internodes nearly covered by the sheathing base of the leaves, striate, nigro-hirsute, about a foot in height. _Leaves_ leathery, dark green, oblong-lanceolate, about three inches long, obliquely notched at the apex. _Flowers_ in short three to five-flowered racemes, terminal or borne in the axils of the upper leaves, conspicuous from their fine ivory-white colour and distinct eye; _sepals_ lanceolate, acute, entire, spreading, the dorsal one erect; _petals_ also pure white, broader, ovate-lanceolate, spreading, the tips often recurved; _lip_ three-lobed, the lateral lobes short, roundish-ovate, white, pencilled with cinnabar-red, the middle lobe three times longer, elongate-oblong, apiculate, the veins thickened, the margins crenulate and undulated, the disk minutely downy, and like the lateral lobes marked with a tuft of longitudinal cinnabar-red lines; _spur_ funnel-shaped, horizontal, about equalling the sepals. _Column_ short, greenish. Dendrobium Draconis, _Reichenbach fil._, _Botanische Zeitung_, 1862, 214; _Id._, _Gardeners’ Chronicle_, N.S., xix., 598. Dendrobium eburneum, _Parish MS._; _Bateman_, in _Botanical Magazine_, t. 5459; _Id._, _Second Century of Orchidaceous Plants_, t. 166; _André_, _Revue Horticole_, 1883, 132, with coloured plate.