The Culture of Greenhouse Orchids 



Trochilus is another name for it, and Ephippium 

 a third. 21s. 



Coriacea (rough). I name this only because it is 

 often seen, which suggests the possibility that some 

 mortals admire it; but I make bold to say that 

 the reader would not, for I credit him with a sense 

 of beauty. Good size, greenish, spotted with purple. 

 New Granada. 1845. 5s. 



Davisi (Mr. Davis, a collector). A yellow species, 

 and valuable on that account, had it no other 

 merits. But the flower is large, and of pleasing 

 tint. Summer. Peru. 1875. 7s. 6d. 



Elephanticeps (elephant's head a fanciful resem- 

 blance). Striking, large, lower sepals purple, upper 

 yellow. Spring. New Granada. 



Erythrochcete (red tails). White, with a yellow 

 tinge and dark-red spots. Summer. New Granada. 

 10s. 6d. 



Estradce (after Donna Estrada, a lady of New 

 Granada, who cultivates orchids. What a heavenly 

 mansion hers might be, and is, we trust !). Small, 

 but wonderfully bright ; upper sepal, which is 

 strongly concave, violet above, yellow at the base ; 

 lower, violet at the base, yellow at the tips. Very 

 free-flowering. Warm end. In summer it may 

 probably want water every day. New Granada. 

 1874. 10s. 6d. 



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