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summer months, so that the additional warmth then required is 
supplied by the natural conditions existing at that time of the 
year ; indeed too much heat must be guarded against by shading, 
and plenty of tempered light and air provided. During the active 
growing period it must be supplied freely with water at the roots, 
in addition to a syringing once or twice a day in bright weather. 
Its flowers are a pure white, growing in clusters of three or 
more, and in well-grown plants forming a mantle of snowy white- 
ness over the green of the leaves and pseudobulbs, the latter re- 
sembling much in shape the ordinary olive. The lip bears a crest 
of about five rows of long hairs—this giving to the plant its 
specific name. In the typical form these hairs are a rich orange, 
and the effect of this combination is quite pleasing. In the 
wancy hololeuca 2 known under the name of aba) this crest 
white variety is by no means common. In 
the variety ee (also known under the name of citrina) the 
crest is a lemon-yellow instead of orange. This is interesting as 
a variation, but is not as effective as -the typical plant. The so- 
called variety maxima, from which the illustration was made 
(Plate XXV ers from the typical form mainly in the larger 
flowers and Sone While these differences are of little 
value botanically, they are of more importance from the stand- 
point of artistic and decorative effects 
The genus Coclogyne is confined to the Old World, being 
especially rich in species in the East Indies and the Malay Archi- 
pelago. Something over fifty species are known, many of these 
being in cultivation, but none with which we are acquainted can 
surpass, and few equal, this native of the temperate Himalayas. 
I know of no other orchid which will so well repay the care and 
attention given, or which will yield so rich a harvest of delightful 
bloom 
GEORGE V. Nasu. 
