We find _Lælias_ like to be as near the light as possible, and they will thrive well in pots or baskets suspended from the roof, so that their roots can throw themselves out where they please. They might indeed all be grown in baskets if preferred. [Illustration: PL. 136. CYPRIPEDIUM CALURUM.] CYPRIPEDIUM CALURUM. [Plate 136.] A Garden Hybrid. Epiphytal. Acaulescent. _Leaves_ spreading, tufted, ensiform, channelled especially towards the base, tapered to the apex, one and a quarter inch wide, green. _Scape_ of a brownish-red colour, tall, branched, bearing several flowers, with longish ovate-lanceolate boat-shaped bracts at the ramifications. _Flowers_ large and handsome, five inches in lateral, three and a half inches in vertical expansion; _dorsal sepal_ oblong ovate bluntish, pale watery green with several longitudinal purplish and darker green intermediate ribs, slightly flushed with red, the purple tint stronger on the glossy exterior, which is olive green, the extreme edge white; _lower sepal_ broad ovate, half as long as the lip; _petals_ two and a half inches long, over half an inch broad at the base, narrowing to the apex, pale greenish white in the centre with an edge of wine-red one-eighth of an inch wide which meets towards the end so that the apex is wholly wine-red, the colour deeper and glossy outside with the central parts olive, the inside covered over with pellucid hairs, those on the lower half near the base longer and purplish; _lip_ bold, oblong obtuse, nearly two inches long, the pouch deep wine-purple in front, paler behind, the sides deeply inflexed and with a roundish projecting lobe at the front angle of the aperture, greenish or creamy white with a few irregular purple spots, the inside of the pouch more distinctly spotted. _Staminode_ greenish white clothed with short stiff hairs, transversely oblong or reniform with an apiculus and having a fringe of short dark purple hairs on the front margin, the sterile lobe roundish, fleshy, greenish white, hairy. Cypripedium calurum, _Reichenbach fil._, in _Gardeners’ Chronicle_, N.S., xv. 41.