be allowed to rest, and during this period only sufficient water to keep them 
from shrinking should be provided. 
RENANTHERA COCCINEA. Native of Cochin China. 
This species grows on long, climbing stems which cling to their host tree by 
means of the numerous white, fleshy roots which spring from the sides. Leaves 
are arranged in two parallel rows, and are four to five inches long, strap-shaped, 
notched at the apex, and dark green in colour. The flowers are produced on long 
racemes, branched, and many flowered. The individual flowers are between 2 and 
3 inches across. The upper sepal and the two petals are strap-shaped, deep red 
blotched with orange. The two lower sepals are very large, oblong, widened at 
the apex, and have undulated edges. They are deep crimson, barred transversely 
with lighter lines. Labellum small, deep crimson, throat white. Spur conical and 
pointed. Flowers in Autumn, the blooms lasting a month or more. 
By reason of its climbing habit this plant does best when grown on a tree fern 
trunk or a slab from one. It loves sunlight and should be placed in the warmest, 
sunniest, and moistest part of a glasshouse. In the colder parts of Brisbane and 
the South it will be desirable to give it artificial heat in the Winter. 
RENANTHERA COCCINEA (var. alba). A Native of Malaya. 
This attractive species grows to a great height in the forests of its native land, 
specimens up to, and even exceeding, 20 feet in height having been found. Under 
cultivation it rarely exceeds 4 or § feet. The terete stems are woody and clothed 
with leathery, oblong leaves notched at the apex, about 6 inches long and 14 
inches wide. They appear alternatively on opposite sides of the stem, their bases 
forming a sheath round it. From the nodes opposite the leaves the long slender 
flower stems grow, each bearing five or six good sized ivory-white flowers with 
linear oblong sepals and petals, the latter incurved at the apex. The lip is small 
and incurved and is prettily mottled with yellow blotches. 
This species demands warm treatment, and will require glasshouse treatment in 
Brisbane, and in the south must have heat. it requires copious water through- 
out the Spring and Summer, and even during the Winter must not be allowed to 
become dry. Plenty of light is necessary, but in the Summer the plant should 
be shaded from the direct rays of the sun. 
Synonyms: Arachnis alba, Renanthera alba and Arachnanthe alba. 
RENANTHERA IMSCHOOTIANA. Native of Assam. 
This very popular species grows on a slender, erect stem about 18 inches or more 
high, clothed with two rows of dark green, strap-shaped leaves about 3 to 4 
inches long and notched at the apex. Flowers on a branching raceme. Upper sepals 
and petals small, oblong, reddish-vermilion or orange in colour, the lower sepals 
larger and broader and of the same colour. Flowers in Spring and Summer and 
lasts a month to six weeks. 
RENANTHERIA LOWII. A synonym of Vandopsis Lowii. 
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