PESCATOREA. 



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salinon-red flowers, which are copiously marked on both 

 sarfaces with reddish purple or maroon spots, and which 

 have an agreeable aromatic resinous odour. The pendulous 

 flower spikes hang over the edge of the pot ; it blooms in 

 September, lastuig two or three weeks in perfection. — 

 Deinerara. 

 FiG.— Knoioles and Westc, Floral Cab , t. 70. 



P. pendula, Hook. — A handsome species, with oblong-ovate 

 farrowed pseudobulbs, bearing three or four lanceolate nervosa 

 leaves, and a short pendulous scape from the base of the bulb, 

 bearing a close-set raceme of about five globose flowers, which 

 are of a blush-tinted yellowish colour thickly sprinkled with 

 purple dots, the hp dingy white spotted with purple, its disk 

 bearing a thick elevated crest, and the anterior lobe deeply- 

 grooved with a recurved apex. — Demeram. 



FiG.—Bot. Mag., t. 3479. 



PeSCATOEEA, Eeichcnbach fil. 

 {Tribe Vandese, subtribe Cyrtcpodeaj.) 



This genus consists of epiphytal plants scarcely forming;, 

 pseudobulbs, but having bold distichous evergreen leaves, and 

 one-flowered scapes issuing from amongst them, and bearing, 

 large flowers, which have a clawed lip, with an ovate acute 

 lamina, a deeply fimbriated crest, and a very broad column. 

 The few species are from the Andes of South America. 



Culture. — The Pescatoreas are easily grown if they get the 

 treatment required, but they are often killed by having too 

 much heat. We find they do best in the cool end of the 

 East Indian house, with plenty of water all the year round, 

 for they seem never to require any rest. The attention that 

 may be given them will be well repaid by a profusion of their 

 elegant, curious, and dehcately scented flowers. The plants 

 will do well either on blocks or rafts or in pots ; if on blocks. 

 live sphagnum should be packed about their roots ; if in 

 pots, they should have a compost of peat and moss, with good 

 drainage. 



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