56 COOL ORCHID GROWING. 



SELECT DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF COOL OKCHIDS.* 



Acineta. 



THIS is a small genus of robust, sub -terrestrial Orchids from 

 Central America. Pseudo-bulbs large as hen's eggs, angular 

 bearing two to four broad lanceolate, ribbed leaves ; flowers 

 sub-globose, fleshy, arranged on stout, pendulous racemes, 

 which depend below the baskets, in which all the species of 

 this section should be grown. 



A. Barkeri (Mexico, 183 7) . This species inhabits shady valleys. 

 Pseudo-bulbs, five to seven inches long, bearing about three 

 broad lanceolate leaves, two feet long, and of a fresh green colour. 

 Scapes stout, produced from the base of the bulbs, drooping, 

 bearing fifteen to thirty flowers ; colour yellow and dark crim- 

 son, scented; May and July. This species has several times 

 been figured as Peristeria Barkeri. 



A. densa. A robust growing species, in habit similar to the 

 above ; flowers sub-globose and of a waxy consistence ; colour 

 lemon yellow, dotted with brown ; also known as Acineta 

 Warscewiczii. 



A. Humboldti (Columbia, 1842). A fine species, but its 

 flowers speedily fade. It blooms in March and April ; scapes 

 two feet long ; it has been figured as Peristeria Humboldti, and 

 is occasionally known as Acineta superba. All the preceding 

 are large-growing plants, and affect a shady position in the 

 house, together with a copious supply of moisture when 

 growing. 



Ada. 

 A. aurantiaca (New Granada). This genus is as yet only 



* Those species marked with an asterisk * will be found to succeed best in the 

 warm end of the house. 



