Messrs. Veitch, Chelsea, London, continue in the good work of raising hybrid orchids, and are lucky enough in producing some kinds that are quite as distinct and remarkable as species discovered in their native tropical homes. The one now figured is one of the latest. They furnish us with the following account of it:

"A hybrid of exceptional merit raised by our foreman, Mr. Seden, from C. Roezlii and C. cau-datum, the latter being the pollen parent. It is the most robust Cypripedium known; its sword-shaped leaves attain a length of from 24 to 30 inches, and are of a bright glossy green; the scape is robust in proportion, exceeding a yard in height, and is many-flowered. The flowers are 6 inches across the sepals from tip to tip. The dorsal sepal is yellowish white traversed with yellowish green veins; the lower sepal is similar with paler veins. The petals are ribbon-like, more than a foot long, quite pendulous, pale crimson except the broader basilar portion, which is yellowish veined with green. The lip is large and prominent, greenish yellow above, whitish beneath, the infolded lobes whitish spotted with crimson around the base; the staminode is pale yellow slightly flushed with crimson below, and with its upper edge fringed with blackish crimson hairs.

Cypripedium grande.

"Professor Reichenbach, in the Gardeners' Chronicle, vol. xv. (1881), p. 462, remarks of this plant, that 'there are few hybrids which have given me so much pleasure as this, since I expect it must develop by and by into an even more superb thing, justifying its name.' "