to three weeks. This species requires warm, moist conditions at all times. Copious 
moisture all through the growing period, with only a slight diminution in the 
Winter. In the South and in the cooler parts of Brisbane a heated house is essential. 
In the warmer parts a closed glasshouse may serve. 
SARCOCHILUS BREVILABRIS. Native of North Queensland. 
A rare species with elongated stems furnished with green leaves, 2 to 3 inches 
long and from } to 1 inch wide, and striped with lines of darker green. Raceme 
3 to 4 inches in length, and bearing up to half-a-dozen small flowers with lanceo- 
late sepals and ovate petals, white with a few lilac flecks, lip very short, white 
with purplish or brown markings. Flowers in Spring and lasts two to four weeks. 
Treatment as for S. Armitii. 
SARCOCHILUS CECILIAE. Native of Eastern Australia. 
A dainty, little species widely distributed through the coastal districts from the 
far North to Southern New South Wales. It has rather fragile stems, usually 
from 3 to 6 inches in length, sheathed in the bases of the linear pointed, 
sometimes falcate, brownish-green leaves, which are fleshy and from 2 to 3 inches 
long. The very slender stems are erect and bear a number of tiny, pink (some- 
times white), bell-shaped flowers with sepals and petals about }-inch in length. 
The lip is short and fleshy, the middle lobe having a woolly surface. Flowers in 
Spring. This species is usually found growing on the trunks or branches of dead 
gum trees where it gets the full force of the morning sun. If gathered in the 
grower’s locality open-air treatment will be best. This species is particularly suited 
for experiments with tree blisters. 
SARCOCHILUS DIVITIFLORUS. Native of South-east Queensland and New 
South Wales. 
This distinctive and interesting species has short, flattened stems with very flat, 
rough, dark coloured roots. The leaves, whose bases sheathe the stems, are oblong, 
falcate, very hard and coarse, dark green in colour, and rather sandpapery to the 
touch. They are up to 6 inches long and about 14 inches wide. The slender 
racemes are usually about 7 inches long, but in good specimens often reach from 
My wife and I often go on a blister hunt, and derive great enjoyment. Our best tally so far 
was 32 in two and a half hours, but we struck a real patch that afternoon. These blisters are 
practically without exception hollow, or semi-hollow, according to the way the white ants have 
done their work inside, and a few well directed blows with the axe will sever them from the 
trunk of the log. If they are too tough to cut away they will be too tough to clean out, so 
leave them. A little experience will soon determine on sight which are the ones to tackle. 
Dump the good ones in the back of the car and take them home and clean them out with 
mallet and chisel—not too drastically; the rougher they are inside the better. Bore a few holes 
with an inch bit and you have to hand the finest Orchid containers, to my mind, that it is pos- 
sible to produce. If you are lucky and energetic enough to get a selection (no two are alike), you 
will find a pot to suit any Orchid you have—deep ones for Vandas, small ones for Cypripediums, 
large ones for Cymbidiums, and mediums for Dendrobiums and Cattleyas. I find that every blister 
has its Orchid and every Orchid has its blister—they go together. I have over a hundred hanging 
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