in the axil of every one of those scales there is a bud, capable 
of becoming a young plant; under ordinary circumstances 
however, a few only of such buds develope and become pseudo- 
bulbs, the rest remaining dormant. But although dormant 
they are not dead ; and if the rhizoma is cut to pieces, and 
thus the power of lengthening at the end arrested, the plant 
will seek to repair its losses by the developement of the 
dormant buds. 
