CHAPTER QV rre. 
NANODES. 
ACCORDING to the botanists’ classification, this genus should 
be included in Epidendrum, but it is so well known under 
the above name, and withal so distinct, that we retain it. 
Two or three species have been introduced, but N. Medusz 
is the only one worth cultivating. 
Culture.—Being found at a considerable altitude, this 
species requires cool treatment, and may be grown in a 
light position near the roof-glass of the Odontoglossum- 
house. It succeeds best when planted in well-drained 
baskets of peat-fibre and sphagnum. It has no sstrictly- 
defined resting period, and before one growth is completed 
others start from the base. It should, therefore, have free 
supplies of water at all times, this point, and that of good 
drainage, being essential to its successful cultivation. 
N. Medusea.— Few Orchids present a more singular 
appearance than this. ‘It is an epiphyte, with slender, 
pendent stems rft. in length, covered with the flattened, 
sheathing bases of the leaves. The oblong, fleshy leaves 
are arranged in two opposite rows, and measure 2in. to 
4in. in length; they are notched at the tips, and are of a 
pale glaucous green. The flowers, of which one to three 
are produced in the axils of the terminal leaves, are 2in. 
