ORCHIDS OF LESSER VALUE 179 



CAMARIDIUM 



The few species belonging to this genus of stove Orchids 

 come from Tropical America, but Camaridium ochroleucum is 

 only occasionally cultivated. It has white flowers and usually 

 blooms in the Winter, and should be grown in shallow, well- 

 drained pans or baskets of peat and sphagnum, the crown of the 

 plant being kept well above the compost. 



CAMAROTIS 



Half a century ago or more Camarotis purpureus was 

 highly esteemed among lovers of Orchids, and it is on record that 

 a plant exhibited from the Westonbirt collection in 1850 carried 

 no fewer than one hundred spikes of rosy flowers, the deep rose- 

 purple lip adding to the colour eff^ect. This plant is not often 

 met with now, but probably its popularity would return if some 

 one presented it in first-rate condition. A high temperature and 

 abundance of moisture at all times suits it best, while sphagnum 

 and broken crocks sufiice as a rooting medium. 



CATASETUM 



Although Catasetums are among the most remarkable and 

 interesting Orchids, and invariably attract a great deal of attention 

 when exhibited, most people are well content to let some one else 

 do the growing. Catasetums are of little horticultural value, and 

 before it was known that the male and female flowers diff^ered in 

 structure and colour, and were usually borne on separate spikes, 



