198 ABOUT ORCHIDS. 
home; I do not know where the home is, and I 
should not tell if Idid. Such information is more 
valuable than the surest tip for the Derby, or most 
secrets of State. This new orchid is a Cyrrhope- 
talun, of very small size, but, like so many others, 
its flower is bigger than itself. The spike inclines 
almost ata right angle, and the pendent half is 
hung with golden bells, nearly two inches in length. 
Beneath it stands the very rare scarlet Utricularia, 
growing in the axils of its native Vriesia, asin a 
cup always full; but as yet the flower has been 
seen in Europe only by the eyes of faith. It may 
be news to some that Utricularias do not belong to 
the orchid family—have, in fact, not the slightest 
kinship, though associated with it by growers to the 
degree that Mr. Sander admits them to his farm. 
A little story hangs to the exquisite U. Campbellt. 
All importers are haunted by the spectral image 
of Cattleya labiata, which, in its true form, had 
been brought to Europe only once, seventy 
years ago, when this book was written. Some 
time since, Mr. Sander was looking through 
the drawings of Sir Robert Schomburgk, in the 
British Museum, among which is a most eccentric 
Cattleya named—for reasons beyond comprehen- 
sion—a variety of C. Wossie. He jumped at the 
conclusion that this must be the long-lost C. dabzata. 
