After leaving these grand plants we entered the principal Orchid house, wherein we also found many well-grown plants. We specially noticed _Dendrochilum filiforme_, a fine specimen, which had produced a great number of its drooping spikes. _Vanda cœrulea_ was finely in bloom, as were _Phalænopsis violacea_, with its pretty violet coloured flowers, and _P. grandiflora_, a fine plant of a good variety. We were also glad to see the rare _Cœlogyne ocellata maxima_, a chaste and pretty Orchid. _Arundina bambusifolia_, was well in bloom, with four spikes of its light rose sepals and petals, and rich magenta lip. There were many fine Cattleyas and Lælias making good growths for next year; also _Cypripedium superbiens_, a fine specimen, and one of the best of the barbatum section. Next to it was a very large _C. Dominianum_, a pretty free-blooming hybrid, which continues flowering from the same spike for some months, a new flower coming on as soon as one goes off. There are many interesting plants grown at this place, and Mr. Kemp, the gardener, seems to take great interest in them, which is the way to ensure success.—B. S. W. [Illustration: PL. 119. CYPRIPEDIUM SPICERIANUM.] CYPRIPEDIUM SPICERIANUM. [Plate 119.] Native of Assam. Epiphytal. _Stemless_, with spreading distichous evergreen foliage. _Leaves_ few, oblong-ligulate, sub-acute, heeled beneath, and there purple-spotted towards the base, six to eight inches long or more, thick and leathery in texture, of a dull glossy green colour. _Peduncles_ erect, issuing from an oblong compressed basal sheath, dark reddish-purple, puberulous, eight to ten inches high, the flower emerging from an ancipitous linear-oblong obtuse bract shorter than the purplish three-ribbed ovary. _Flowers_ about three and a half inches across, with a large pouch or lip; _dorsal sepal_ large, standard-like, the base green, hairy, cuneate, suddenly expanding into an ovate, bluntly apiculate, transversely oblong lamina, two inches broad, the sides of which are recurved, auriculæform, white, or in some forms tinted with pink, the keel or central line being marked with a well-defined purple stripe; _lateral sepals_ short, connate, ovate, acute, whitish-green; _petals_ ligulate or linear-oblong, laterally deflexed, the margins neatly wavy, but most so upon the upper side, pale yellowish-green, with a median purple line and numerous purple freckles over the surface; _lip_ large, the pouch somewhat bell-shaped, with round everted auricles on each side, and a broad acute sinus in front, glossy, olive green, with the anterior part dark reddish-brown. _Column_ short, hairy. _Staminode_ subquadrate, obsoletely three-lobed in front, mauve-purple, with a white border, and yellow markings in the centre.