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the wet moss on which the}' lay ! The delicately perfumed 

 little orchid, Dendrochilum glumaceum, was flowering 

 freely, its elegantly drooping inflorescence resembling 



RHODODENDRON STENOrHYLLUM. 



the most dainty filagree work. Golden and white- 

 flowered coelogynes nestled here and there beside our 

 path. In one place, the curious little Rhododendron 

 cricifolium was in bloom ; and another species, growing 

 on mossy trunks, bore waxy, bell-shaped flowers of a 

 clear orange-scarlet colour. The dark glossy green 



