44 ORCHIDS. 
fresh sphagnum mixed with a few pieces of charcoal. The 
smaller kinds are best grown in teak baskets or pans, with 
a layer of drainage at the bottom, and sphagnum about 
the base of the stem. A few kinds thrive only when grown 
on blocks of soft wood or fern-stem. They all like plenty 
of ‘water at the root all the year round.) Excep 
A. falcatum, all the known species require tropical treat- 
ment; none of them should be grown in a position ex- 
posed to bright sunshine. 
A good many of the species of Angrzecum which are 
grown by specialists are not of the kind which amateurs 
generally would care to have. The following kinds are 
what we consider the best of the genus: 
A. caudatum.—A handsome plant, 8in. to 12in. high, with 
strap-shaped, recurved leaves, roin. long, and_ horizontal 
spikes of flowers, arranged in two rows along the spike; 
sepals and petals brownish; lip large, pure white, with 
a long, projecting point, and a spur gin. long, coloured 
brown. A pretty species, lasting in flower several weeks. 
It blooms in the autumn. Native of Sierra Leone. 
Botanical Magazine, t. 4370. 
A. citratum.—A small species, with spathulate, bright , 
green leaves, on a short stem, and slender, horizontal 
spikes of small, jewel-like flowers, arranged with their faces 
upwards, creamy-white, the spur thin, greenish. One of the 
prettiest of miniature tropical Orchids. Native of Mada- 
gascCar. 
Botanical Magazine, t. 5624 
A. eburneum.—A large, robust plant, 3ft. or more in 
height, with long, thick, strap-shaped leaves, of leathery 
texture, light green in colour. Flower-spikes erect, stiff, 
bearing numerous large flowers, in which the petals and 
sepals are narrow and green, whilst the broad, cordate lip 
