210 orchid-growee's manual. 



Cidture. — These plants will do on blocks of wood, but tliey 

 grow much finer in baskets or pots, with peat, moss, and 

 potsherds. All the species require a liberal supply of heat 

 and moisture in their growing season, except C. aurea, which 

 we have found to succeed best in the cool house ; but after 

 they have finished their growth, they should be removed into 

 a cooler house till they begin to grow again, and then be 

 taken back to coolest end of the East Indian house. During 

 their season of rest they require very little water. They 

 are propagated by dividing the plants just as they begin to 

 grow. 



C. aurea, Lindley. — A charming Orchid, producing its 

 flowers on a short spike, generally twice a year. The stems 

 are pendulous subclavate, clothed with fuscous scales, the 

 leaves ovate-lanceolate, nervose, undulate, and the blossoms, 

 which grow in drooping racemes, are yellow, the lip being 

 marked with crimson. It flowers at different times of the 

 year, and lasts about a fortnight in beauty. — Venezuela. 

 YlG.—Bot. Reg., t. 1937 ; Bot. Mag., t. 3617. 



C. bractescens, Llndlcy. — A fine species, with fusiform fleshy 

 stems, ovate-lanceolate plicate leaves, and nodding racemes 

 of waxy flowers, sometimes six together, each flower measuring 

 two or three inches across, and having white sepals and 

 petals, while the lip is yellow inside and white outside, its 

 emarginate plicate front lobe being marked with crimson 

 lines, and its disk bearing five or seven fleshy lamellae between 

 the erect side lobes. It blooms in April and May ; lasts two 

 or three weeks in perfection, and makes a good show plant. — 

 Meodco. 



'FlG.—Bot Reg., 1841, t. 23 ; Flore des Serves, t. 675 ; Bot. Mag., t. 5186; 

 Batem. 2nd Cent., t. 138; Rev. Eort., 1859, 294. 



C. ClielsOlli, Hchh. f. — A very fine hybrid raised from 

 C. Limminghei probably crossed with C. Icevis, which it very 

 much resembles. The flowers are in bold drooping racemes, 

 the sepals and petals nankin-yellow with a blotch of purplish- 

 brown in the upper half, and the lip whitish with the numerous 

 violet-purplish blotches of C. Limminghei ; the column is 

 whitish, with many small purplish dots. This form was 



