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entirely to tropical America. Many are natives of the mountains 

 and require no very high temperature. The few comparatively 

 known in Calcutta, are : 1. 0. ampliatum; 2. luridum; these two 

 are well established, and flower regularly; 3. 0. crispum; 4. 0. 

 bicallosum ; 5. 0. lanceanum, accounted the most beautiful of all ; 

 and 6. 0. papilio, the famous Butterfly-plant. 



Stanhopea. 



Plants remarkable for the way in which they thrust their 

 spikes of flowers through the bottom of the baskets in which 

 they are suspended. S. martiana and S. tigrina thrive well, and 

 have flowered in the Botanical Gardens. 



Calanthe. 



1. C. vestita. A terrestrial Orchid, native of Maulmein ; 

 throws up in the Cold season a spike of large milk-white 

 flowers, with deep rosy eye. There is a variety with a yellow 

 eye. 2. C. masuca. Native of Northern India, bears purplish 

 flowers in a hyacinth-like spike. 



Limatodes. 



L. rosea. A terrestrial Orchid, nearly allied to the last ; very 

 chaste and beautiful, when in the Cold season it sends up its 

 deep rose-coloured flowers with crimson spot in the centre. 



Vanilla. 



The different species of Vanilla are said to do best potted in 

 moss, the pots well drained with potsherds, with a trellis for the 

 plants to be trained upon. They are also very ornamental 

 when nicely trained upon a long upright log of wood with the 

 end securely fixed in a flower-pot for a stand, as seen in Fig. 17. 

 They should be fastened on with a little moss or Cocoa-nut 

 fibre. Cultivated in this way I have seen beautiful flowering 

 specimens at the Calcutta shows. They are easily propagated 

 by cuttings of the stem taken off at a joint. The following are 

 pretty common in Calcutta, and bear greenish-white flowers : 

 1. V. albida; 2. V. aromatica; 3. V. grandiflora; 4. V. ovalifolia; 

 5. V. planifolia, which emits a delicious fragrance at night. 



