CHAP TE Rix 
ANCGCTOCHILUS. 
THIS is a small genus of ground Orchids, related to our 
own native ‘‘Lady’s Tresses” (Goodyera repens). Botanists 
describe about eight true species, referring all the others to 
allied genera, or reducing them to the position of varieties 
merely. Horticulturally, however, this arrangement is 
not easy to follow, and we therefore propose to describe 
under the name of Anecectochilus all those plants which are 
popularly known as such. 
The flowers in these plants are so small and unattractive 
that they need not be described here. Indeed, most 
cultivators of Ancectochili prefer to remove the flower- 
spikes as soon as they appear, so as to prevent their 
exhausting the plant. All the kinds have short, fleshy, 
creeping stems, from which roots are emitted more or less 
freely on the lower side. The leaves are arranged in a 
rosette, or alternately on the stem, and vary in form 
from orbicular to lance-shaped; they are succulent, very 
tender, and usually their veins are picked out in rich and 
beautiful colours, golden, silvery, olive, and even  rose- 
coloured reticulations often covering their whole surface. 
Under favourable conditions each leaf remains on the plant 
three, five, or even eight years, retaining the brilliancy 
