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Culture. — These plants resemble Bletias, and should be 

 treated in the same manner. They should be potted in a 

 mixture of turfy loam, peat, and sand, but not elevated upon 

 a cone above the rim of the pot. During the growing season 

 they should be placed in the East Indian house ; but during 

 rest a cool and moderately di-y atmosphere is best. 



C. flava, Lindlcy. — A very pretty plant, not much known 

 at present amongst Orchid-growers. It has somewhat the 

 appearance of a Bletia, with long lanceolate plicate leaves, and 

 a tall many-flowered scape, two to three feet high, bearing 

 large flowers, the sepals and petals of which are rich yellow, 

 and the lip a rather paler yellow. — Northern India. 



C. sanguinea, Lindley. — A handsome plant, somewhat 

 variable in its colouring, with thick oblong annulated 

 tubers, from which springs up an erect leafless scape a foot 

 and a half high, with sheathing bracts on the lower part, and 

 above a raceme of numerous red-purple flowers two inches 

 in diameter, with a three-lobed limb produced into a short 

 blunt spur behind, the front lobe expanded, roundish, white 

 bordered with rose, and the side lobes also rosy, having each 

 a dark spot inside. — Sikkhn Himalaya, tropical region, at 

 3,000—6,000 feet elevation. 



'Em.—Bot. Maq., t. 6161. 



Cyetopodium, H, Brown. 



(Tribe Vandcffi, subtribe Cyrtopodieae.) 

 These are large-growing plants, yet are well worth culti- 

 vating, especially where room is not an object, for if well grown 

 they are noble-looking objects even when not in bloom. They 

 are terrestrial herbs, with fusiform fleshy stems bearing a few 

 long plicately-veined leaves, contracted into a petiole, which 

 becomes dUated and clasps the stem ; the large compound 

 radical panicles bear moderate-sized showy flowers, the lip of 

 which has a geniculate claw, forming with the base of the 

 lateral sepals a short mentum or chin. The flowers grow 



