Sophronitis 



on the true lip. Winter. New Granada. 1869. 

 10s. Qd. 



Elegans resembles this very closely on a smaller 

 scale. Winter. Venezuela. 1850. Is. 6d. 



Pandurata (fiddle-shaped of lip). Smaller still. 

 White, with crimson dots. Winter. New Granada. 

 1890. 



SOPHKONITIS. (Modest.) 



One species of this genus is invaluable. There 

 are very few scarlet orchids in cultivation only 

 Coclilioda Noetzliana in the cool house besides 

 this. Epidendrum vitellinum is orange-scarlet ; so 

 is Lcelia monophylla. All Sophronitis are easily 

 grown under the treatment of Odontoglossums ; 

 but they do best in pans or baskets near the light. 



Cernua. A very pretty little flower, but incon- 

 spicuous unless in quantity ; four to six, however, 

 appear upon a spike. They are pale rosy-scarlet 

 bells, touched with crimson lake and yellow in the 

 centre. I have seen this upon a block with fifteen 

 or twenty spikes, and then it is singularly graceful. 

 November to January. Brazil. 1826. 3s. 6d. 



Coccinea (red). As a rule this is, in effect, a less 

 handsome variety of the species following, from 

 which it is only distinguished in appearance by a 

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