Nanodes 



I do not advise the amateur to buy this plant 

 unestablished ; the most skilful of growers find it 

 very difficult to start. In truth, it is not to be 

 described as an easy species even then ; for in one 

 house it will grow like a weed, and in another, for 

 reasons inexplicable, it will not live. Some authori- 

 ties recommend warmer quarters in winter, which 

 again is odd, for the species is Alpine, living at a 

 height of 6000 feet, as is alleged. For my own 

 part, I find that it does well among Odontoglots 

 the year round ; but circumstances differ, of course, 

 in one house and another. 



Stellata. Vide flavescens. 



NANODES. (Pigmy.) 



This genus is abolished, and its single species 

 ranks among Epidendrums; but the unlearned 

 public does not readily admit that a plant so extra- 

 ordinary, so unlike all other orchids, should not 

 have a name of its own. 



Nanodes Medusae has a cluster of short fat stems 

 with thick grey-green leaves. The flower is of 

 good size, leathery, with dull green sepals and 

 petals and spreading lip, heart-shaped, dusky 

 purple in colour, bordered by a deep fleshy fringe. 

 In all respects it is an unholy-looking object 



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