144 ORCHIDS. 



A. Acineta longiscapa. Venezuela. 



A species bearing great resemblance to Acineta Hum- 

 boltii, but with smaller flowers and blooming in winter. 



Flowers large, on a long slender pendulous spike, ten 

 to twenty in number, very fragrant. A free blooming 

 plant of easy culture. This species is not found in Eu- 

 ropean catalogues, but is not rare in American collec- 

 tions. 



There are other species. Acineta densa, from Costa 

 Rica, is remarkable for a close spike of deep yellow 

 flowers, and is probably a variety of Acineta Barkeri ; fig- 

 ured in Floral Magazine, pi. 16. 



Acineta erythroxantha, cryptodonta, and sella-turcica, are 

 figured in Reich. Xen., pi. 70. 



These plants should be grown in baskets they send 

 their flower-stems down through the bottom, and care 

 should be taken that nothing arrests the downward 

 growth of the bud. All species are evergreen, with short 

 pseudo-bulbs and leaves about a foot high. 



They require a liberal supply of water at the roots 

 during the growing season. 



Aoranthus. Lindley. Epiphyte. 



Name from a-fip, the air, and &?0(fc, a flower. 

 C. Acranthus arachnitis B. M., 6034. 



This is a curious plant from Madagascar. The foliage 

 is broad, green ; the flowers on very long peduncles, of 

 very peculiar shape, yellowish green. 



The plant may be grown oh a block or in a pot, with 

 fresh sphagnum and good drainage. It requires the hot- 

 test house. 

 Acranthus grandiflorus is figured . . . . B. R., 817. 



