98 ORCHIDS. 
hold up its head and grow upwards in the usual manner; 
so that, to succeed with this plant, it should always hang 
with the growing-point downwards. It should be grown 
upon a block of wood, or in shallow pans, and fastened with 
some copper wire,, with just a small portion of sphagnum 
moss and peat fibre; the atmosphere should be moist, and 
the temperature cool. It does well if placed in a shaded 
corner of the Odontoglossum house. The pseudo-bulbs are 
almost round, and they are inclosed in silvery coats or 
sheaths; each bears two grey leaves. The flowers are large, 
growing mostly singly, but sometimes in pairs, and wholly 
of soft lemon-yellow, the margin of the lip wavy and white. 
It blooms during April and May, and owing to the great 
substance of the flowers, which are very fragrant, it lasts 
long in beauty. It is a native of Mexico, where its peculiar 
habit and great beauty early attracted the attention of 
naturalists. A Jesuit who wrote in the seventeenth century 
described it under the wonderful title of ‘‘Corticoatzoate 
coxochitl,” the meaning of which is not known to us. It 
has been in cultivation since 1838. 
Botanical Magazine, t. 3742. 
C. dolosa.— An exceedingly rare plant in cultivation. 
It may be called a large C. Walkeriana, differing in the 
form of its pseudo-bulbs, the two leaves, and in the flowers 
springing from the leaf-growths, and not in a separate 
growth, a peculiarity known only in C. Walkeriana. The 
side lobes of the lip in C. dolosa are very broad, and 
overlapping ; the colour of the whole flower is a soft lilac, 
suffused with white, the lip being broad and purple, with 
a white throat. Introduced from Minas Geraes, in 1872. 
This plant is so rare that we might have been excused 
for omitting it altogether. It requires ordinary Cattleya 
treatment. 
