The Culture of Greenhouse Orchids 



Not less pretty, but in another style. Sepals 

 and petals green, mottled with purple. The lobes 

 of the lip are similar, but the disc is purple, touched 

 with yellow. July. Brazil. 10s. Qd. 



KESTKEPIA. 

 (After Joseph E. Eestrep, naturalist and traveller.) 



These plants are to be classed among pretty 

 curiosities ; the amateur who loves a bloom which 

 catches the eye has no concern with them. They 

 have a single leaf, broad and leathery, without 

 pseudo-bulb. A solitary flower pushes from the 

 stem just below the leaf when mature. The treat- 

 ment of Odontoglots is agreeable to them in all 

 respects. 



Antennifera (so named because the petals and 

 dorsal sepal are narrowed to the likeness of threads 

 or insects' " feelers " antennae). This is the largest 

 of the genus in cultivation, though small enough. 

 The flower resembles an oblong tablet, an inch or 

 more by half an inch, produced by the union of the 

 side sepals an arrangement which looks like an 

 exaggerated lip to the careless observer. Its colour 

 is dusky yellow, thickly speckled all over with 

 minute crimson dots, still thicker and more minute 

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