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covered, like those near Cumana, New Barcelona, and Coro, 

 and in the province of Jaeu de Bracamoros, with columnar 

 and candelabra-like divided cactus stems. 



(21) p. 24. " Ore/tide*." 



The almost animal shape of blossoms of Orchidese is par- 

 ticularly striking in the celebrated Torito of South America 

 (our Anguloa grandiflora) ; in the Mosquito (our Restrepia 

 antennifera) ; in the Mor del Espiritu Santo (also an An- 

 guloa, according to Morse Peruvianse Prodrom. p. 118, tab. 

 26) ; in the ant-like flower of the Chiloglottis cornuta 

 (Hooker, Flora antarctica, p. 69) ; in the Mexican Bletia 

 speciosa ; and in the highly curious host of our European 

 species of Ophrys : O. muscifera, 0. apifera, 0. aranifera, 

 0. arachnites, &c. A predilection for this superbly flower- 

 ing group of plants has so increased, that the number culti- 

 vated in Europe by the brothers Loddiges in 1848 has been 

 estimated at 2360 species ; while in 1843 it was rather more 

 than 1650, and in 1813 only 115. What a rich mine of 

 still unknown superb flowering Orchidese the interior of 

 Africa must contain, if it is well watered ! Lindley, in his 

 fine work entitled " The Genera and Species of Orchideous 

 Plants/' described in 1840 precisely 1980 species; at the 

 end of the year 1848 Klotzsch reckoned 3545 species. 



While in the temperate and cold zones there are only " ter- 

 restrial" Orchidese, i. e. growing on and close to the ground, 

 tropical countries possess both forms, i. e. the ' ' terrestrial" 

 and the " parasitic," which grow on trunks of trees. To the 

 first-named of these two divisions belong the tropical genera 



