the column, the two side-lobes of the epichilium embracing the 
column just below the stigma: the disk crested. Column as 
long as the perianth, its base very decurrent. Anther-case 
flattened at the top. VW. J. H. 
Curt. From the circumstance that the roots of this Orchid 
adhere firmly to the inside of the pot in which it grows, we may 
infer that its natural habitat is in rocky places, where there is — 
but little soil, and which are subject to a considerable degree of 
dryness during a part of the year. With us it grows freely, if 
potted in loose, turfy, peat soil, and kept in the warm division 
of the Orchideous house. It should be planted a few inches 
above the level of the mouth of the pot, and supported by a 
substantial drainage ; for plants of this habit, when potted in 
loose soil, are very liable, by their gravity, to sink below the 
margin of the pot,—which not only gives the plant an unsightly 
appearance, but causes the pseudo-bulbs to become crowded and 
weak. This precaution is the more necessary, from the downward 
tendency of the pseudo-bulbs (a circumstance common to many 
bulbous-rooted genera), each successive formation being produced 
from the base of the previous ones, and being sessile in their 
attachment to them. They are thus liable to become, in time, a 
crowded mass in the pot. When this happens, it is advisable 
to divide the mass, and select the younger and healthier pseudo- 
bulbs, to be repotted in the manner described above. J. 8. 
Fig. 1. Column and lip. 2. Lip :—slightly magnified. 
