318 ORCHIDS. 



The species are all free-flowering plants of easy cul- 

 ture, generally blooming in the spring. They are well 

 worth growing for their fragrance and the persistency of 

 the flowers, which in some species seem almost imperish- 

 able. None require much heat, and they like light, but 

 not full sun. 



Megaclinium. Lindley. Epiphyte. 



Name from ^yas, great, and JCA.IVT], a bed. 

 This genus is more curious than beautiful. The 

 flowers have the peculiarity of moving and closing the lip 

 very rapidly. 



C. Megaclinium Bufo. Sierra Leone. B. R. 



The flowers resemble a number of toads on a spot of 

 green. 



C. Megaclinium fakatum. Sierra Leone . B. R., 989. 

 Flowers yellow and red. 



C. Megaclinium oxypterum. Sierra Leone. 

 Flowers green. 



Megaclinium oxypterum maximum . . . B. R., 1959. 



B. M., 4028. 

 The lip is not movable. 



These plants should be grown in hanging baskets, like 

 Acropera. 



Mesospinidium. Reichenbach. Epiphyte. 

 A. Mesospinidium sanguineum. Peru. Bat. 2d Cen., 196. 



B. M, 5627. 

 A beautiful little cool-house Orchid, from the Andes 



