In the Saccolabium house there had been many fine kinds in flower. We noticed a very handsome _S. Blumei giganteum_ with a spike two feet long and of large size—the plant and spike we have seen. There were also fine varieties of _Phalænopsis violacea_ in bloom, and grand specimens of other rare species, also of _Cattleya Eldorado_, with some good _Aërides_, _Angræcums_, &c. There were some handsome Odontoglots in bloom, and others had thrown some fine flower spikes; also some good plants of _Mesospinidium vulcanicum_, one with nine spikes of its richly-coloured flowers and others equally good; this plant produces a fine contrast among the white _Odontoglossums_, and such effective colours should be sought after, especially when, as here, associated with fine form.—B. S. W. [Illustration: PL. 111. ODONTOGLOSSUM ELEGANS.] ODONTOGLOSSUM ELEGANS. [Plate 111.] Native of Ecuador. Epiphytal. _Pseudobulbs_ oblong, somewhat furrowed, three inches long, diphyllous. _Leaves_ ligulate, acute, tapered and channelled towards the base, of a pale green colour. _Scape_ radical, slender, arching. _Flowers_ racemed or panicled, stellate, three inches in breadth, highly coloured, and showy in character, the yellow centre being very conspicuous; _sepals_ lanceolate, attenuately not suddenly acuminate, recurved and wavy at the edge, the dorsal two inches, the lateral ones about an inch and three quarters long, white, yellow towards the tip, with dark chocolate blotches, which almost cover the surface leaving only a few broken bars near the base and a patch at the apex; _petals_ spreading at the extreme base, then incurved, and finally having the tips recurved, ovate-lanceolate attenuately acuminate, the basal part white with irregular spots and small blotches of chocolate brown, with a larger spot about midway, exterior to which the petal is sometimes spotless and sometimes marked with two or three spots; _lip_ having its basal portion parallel with the column, then turned down at a right angle, panduriform with a recurved cuspidate apex; at the angle is a spreading fringe of many (about eight) projecting processes, the two front ones continuous with the crest along the basal portion of the lip, yellow with chocolate tips, and three shorter ones yellow with a chocolate stripe; behind these are five reddish chocolate stripes which appear like continuations of the teeth; hinder portion about half an inch broad, pale yellow blotched with brown at the edge but strongly recurved, succeeding which is a restricted part wholly covered by a rich brown spot, after which the lip widens and passes into a recurved cuspidate apex, which is white with one or two chocolate blotches. _Column_ half an inch long, clavate, with two subulate horns, white spotted with chocolate, the stigmatic hollow and