have to be placed in an extremely warm, moist position. In Sydney it will require 
a heated house. In the warmer parts of Brisbane it may do in a warm glasshouse, 
particularly if suspended over a fish pond, thus providing for a constantly moist 
atmosphere. In the cooler parts of Brisbane and other cool localities, a glasshouse 
may serve in the Summer time, providing the temperature rarely falls below, say, 
60 degrees, but it will be necessary to give it heat in the cooler months. On the 
higher elevations a heated glasshouse will be essential. In Townsville and other 
warm, moist climates it should live and grow under warm bushhouse conditions 
in the Summer, but a glasshouse will be desirable in the Winter time. It will re- 
quire plenty of moisture at all times, but those who are endeavouring to grow it 
under conditions which will not allow of a fair warmth (say 60 to 65 degrees) 
during the Winter, should reduce the water considerably during the cold months, 
just giving the plant sufficient to sustain a little growth, for it is one of those 
orchids which should not be allowed to cease growing. Although it is an attract- 
ive plant, growers would be better advised to omit it from their collections unless 
they can give it something approaching the conditions it needs. 
COELOGYNE BARBATA. Native of Nepal, Bhutan, and Assam. 
A beautiful species suitable for cool treatment and quite capable of cultivation 
under most growers’ conditions. (If cristata can be grown, barbata will do as 
well). The pseudobulbs are egg-shaped and light green in colour and are topped 
by two leaves about a foot long and two inches across at the widest part then 
diminishing to a point, and thick and coriaceous in substance. Flower scape 
erect and what the botanists term flexuose—that is, it bends a little further for- 
ward with each joint so that as the buds develop it has an arched appearance. The 
flowers are produced in a cluster, the bottom ones opening first. Sepals and petals 
and lip are white, but the latter has a ciliated margin—that is, along the edges 
of the lip there is a hairy fringe light brown in colour, while the centre ridge of 
the lip is crested with another hairy line of darker brown. It flowers towards the 
end of Winter and the blooms last 4 to § weeks. Found as it is on the higher alti- 
tudes, this plant needs cool treatment, and should be grown under bushhouse 
conditions right from Sydney northwards. It likes plenty of water, especially 
during the growing period, but even in Winter should never be allowed to dry 
out. 
COELOGYNE CORYMBOSA. Native of Assam. 
This species is one of the handsomest of the genus. It is found about half way up 
the Khasi Hills at an elevation of from 3,000 to 6,000 feet. The pseudobulbs, about 
2 inches long and about half as thick, carry a pair of broad pointed leaves up to a 
foot in length. The raceme is thrown up with the new growth, and bears a 
rounded cluster of blooms, the sepals and petals being a creamy white, the lip hav- 
ing two large, orange yellow spots, with brown margins and a yellow and brown 
throat. It flowers in Summer time, and if kept cool the blooms last from three 
to four weeks. Ordinary bushhouse treatment will serve for this plant. Plenty of 
water should be given throughout the growing period, reducing the quantity con- 
siderably in the Winter months, 
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