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. 



