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and is a free-growing plant, which may be cultivated in a 

 warm house without the assistance of a bell-glass. 



M. regium, LindUy. — A distinct species, growing about 

 five inches high, and having ovate-lanceolate leaves three 

 inches long, with a margin of a dark green colour, and a 

 broad band of pale lilac or whitish down the centre. The 

 flowers are white and green in loose spikes, and the lip is 

 split into a pair of roundish crenate lobes. Its native name 

 is Iri Rajah, or Striped King of the Woods. — Ceylon and 

 Borneo. 



'FlG.—Blume, OrcJi. Arch. Tnd., t. 48. 



Syn. — Ancectochilus striatus; Anmctochilus Ihieatus ; Eaplochilus regium. 



If ANODES, Lindley. 



{Tribe Epidendreae, subtribe Laelieae.) 



A very small epiphytal genus of peculiar interest, with a 

 ringent perianth, and a fleshy undivided lip connate with the 

 column. Bentham associates it with Ejndendrum under the 

 section Nance, distinguished like it by distichous sheathing 

 leaves on a dwarf diffuse-growing stem. iV. Medusa is a 

 most extraordinary-looking object when in flower, very dis- 

 tinct from any other of its order. 



Culture. — The little Orchid described below is a plant well 

 worth cultivating, and requires to be grown on a block, or in 

 a basket, with moss and peat, and kept very cool in the 

 Odontoglossum house, where it should be suspended from the 

 roof, as it is a native of the higher Andes of Western S. 

 America. 



N. Medusa, BcU. /.—One of the most singular of Orchids. 

 The stems are densely tufted, pendent, branched, covered 

 with broad imbricated sheaths of the distichous glaucous green 

 leaves, which are three to four inches long, Hnear-oblong, 

 curved, unequally bilobed at the apex, and semiamplexicaul at 

 the base. The flowers are leathery, two and a half inches 

 across, flat, two or more in the axils of the terminal leaves ; 



