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straight, dark green foliage, thick fleshy roots, and remarkably 

 long drooping flower spikes, which attain from six to twelve 

 feet in length. The most remarkable feature of the plant is 

 the production of two kinds of flowers on the same spike. 

 The flowers are reddish brown, intersected by irregular lines 

 of greenish yellow, while the two at the base of the spike are 

 of a tawny yellow, spotted with crimson. It blooms dm^ing 

 July, August, and September, and continues fresh for several 

 weeks. The plant succeeds well along with Vandas and 

 AerideSy but it is a shy bloomer, and generally grows four or 

 five feet in height before commencing to flower. I once, 

 however, saw a fine plant exhibited, about three feet high, 

 with three spikes of bloom, by Mr. Mitchell, gardener to E. F. 

 Ainsworth, Esq., M.D., Lower Broughton, Manchester. The 

 plant is evergreen, and grows several feet high ; it throws out 

 thick fleshy roots, and bears dark green alternate leaves eighteen 

 inches in length. It is beautifully figured in Warner's 

 *' Select Orchidaceous Plants,'' from a remarkably fine speci- 

 men in the possession of the late J. H. Fernley, Esq., 

 Didsbury, Manchester. Several plants were bloomed this 

 year by G. Elhott, Esq., of Clapton; and also E. Dodgson, 

 Esq., Blackburn. These plants were two to three feet high. 

 This plant was formerly included in the genus Vanda, and, 

 indeed, is to be found in many collections under the name 

 of V. Loicii, but it is undoubtedly more correctly placed in 

 Renanthera, 



Eestrepia, 



A small genus of epiphytal Orchids, somewhat resembling 

 Fleurothallis, and consisting of small-growing plants with 

 slender stem-like pseudobulbs, each supporting a single leaf. 

 There are but few kinds of this genus worthy the attention 



