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It is a very pretty little species and well worth cultivation, 

 for if in good health it will bear a good many such umbels 

 as are here represented upon the same plant. Like most other 

 Orchidaceae it requires to be grown in a moist stove. The 

 soil best suited to its growth is rough pieces of decayed peat, 

 amongst which broken pieces of pots and bricks may be 

 mixed with advantage. A quantity of drainage should 

 always be put in the bottom of the pots, and very little water 

 given in wmter when the sun's rays are weak, and the wea- 

 ther generally cloudy. The rhizoma of this plant elongates 

 very much, and is in a growing state always at its extremity, 

 leaving the parts formed previously in a state of inaction ; on 

 this account it is necessary at every potting to keep the active 

 part nearest the side of the pot which it grows away from. 

 It may easily be propagated by taking off the pseudo- 

 bulbs, with a portion of the rhizoma adhering to them on 

 each side ; although inactive when upon the old plant, they 

 will push when made to depend upon their own resources. 



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