Masdevallia Chimæra.—We saw a wonderfully fine plant of this curious Orchid in the collection of the Marquis of Lothian, at Newbattle Abbey, Dalkeith, N.B. The plant was suspended from the roof of the house, and bore several finely expanded flowers, each measuring twenty inches across from the tip of one tail to that of the opposite one. The flowers were large in all their parts, of a dark purple colour, beautifully spotted and clothed on the interior surface with dark hairs, which is a peculiar feature of this section of the Masdevallias. Mr. Priest was kind enough to send us some flowers of this species for figuring, but unfortunately they withered before they reached us. It has always been so when flowers of this species have been sent to us, as they last for so short a time when cut from the plant.—B. S. W. [Illustration: PL. 121. CATTLEYA LABIATA PALLIDA.] CATTLEYA LABIATA PALLIDA. [Plate 121.] Native of Brazil. Epiphytal. _Stems_ (pseudobulbs) erect, club-shaped, furrowed in age, eight to ten inches high, monophyllous, evergreen. _Leaves_ oblong obtuse, leathery in texture, about ten inches long, of a lively green colour. _Scape_ two-flowered, issuing from a short oblong bluntish sheath. _Flowers_ large, six to seven inches deep, and six inches broad, superbly coloured; _sepals_ lanceolate, three and a half inches in length, plane, recurved at the tip, of a delicate magenta blush, the lateral ones slightly smaller, of the same colour, with a paler central band, streaky; _petals_ broadly ovate (two and a half inches wide), finely undulated at the margin, narrowed towards the base, of the same colour as the sepals, but with the base of the costa whitish; _lip_ upwards of three inches long, obovate, the basal lobes connivent over the column, faintly stained with magenta, the front edge at the mouth of the tube spreading, of a creamy yellow, and undulated; the front lobe roundish, expanded, very finely undulated, deeply emarginate, the blush-tinted edge enclosing a band of creamy yellow, which becomes narrower towards the apex, where the roundish blotch (one and a half inches wide) of rich deep magenta runs out nearly to the margin, behind which, and extending backwards within the throat, is a radiate series of orange-yellow veins, with magenta coloured veins on each side within the tube. _Column_ clavate, enclosed by the base of the lip. Cattleya labiata pallida, _Hort._; _Williams_, _Orchid Growers’ Manual_, 5 ed., 122.