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rucks, others on the trees, others on the 

 ground, even along the banks of the trails, 

 such as the pretty E. fimbriatum, which grows 

 mostly in sunny, exposed places, forming 

 pretty white or pink patches along the roads. 

 Miltonia Vexillaria is most beautiful to see in 

 flower on the trees. This plant, unlike most 

 Colombian orchids, occurs usually on the 

 smaller branches and less frequently on the 

 large trunks. In some localities it occurs in 

 abundance and at elevations ranging from two 

 thousand to six thousand feet above sea level. 

 At the lowest elevation it is found sparingly 

 and generally is there small and puny, while 

 at from four thousand to five thousand feet 

 it is found at its best. It occurs even higher 

 but not in luxuriance, although, strange to 

 say, I have seen the plants cultivated in some 

 of the villages and towns at much higher alti- 

 tudes and consequently in colder places where 



they grew and flowered admirably well. 

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"Surroundings, elevation, climate and scen- 

 ery, or in short, the associations among which 

 the plants grew, were most likely what caused 

 me to contemplate God's glorious creations in 

 the manner described. As I previously men- 

 tioned, where Cattleya Ciigas flourishes there 

 is a sense of a fresh, invigorating, breezy at- 



MILTONIA VEXILLARIA. 



"Pensamiento" or pansy of South America — so called 



by the natives on account of its resemblance to 



pansies. The flowers are bright rosy pink. 



VANDA COERULEA. 

 The blue orchid. A native of the East Indies. The color of the flowers is of an exquisite bluish color on 



long, many flowered, graceful sprays, strikingly beautiful. 



