This is a plant of considerable delicacy and beauty. The 
green of its foliage is bright, the flowers of a brilliant scarlet 
colour, waxy texture, and a gracefully pendent form. It has 
the advantage, too, of being easily cultivated, and blossoming 
freely, if grown, like most other orchideous parasites, in a mix- 
ture of mould and,bark, and kept in a shady part of the stove. 
The Scarlet Ornithidium is a native of the West Indies, 
and in our Botanic Gardens commonly flowers in the Autumn 
and Winter. 
Fig. 1y Flower, with the lengthened germen. Fig. 2. Column and Lip. 
Fig. 3. Column, from which the anther is removed, shewing the Stigma, 
and the Pollen as left by the anther. Fig. 4. Outer view of the Anther. ~ 
Fig. 5. Inner view of the same, with the cells empty. Fig. 6. Two of 
the four Pollen-masses.—All more or less magnified. 
