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stem, if present, is much shorter than the leaves ; and of them some form 
dense tufts; the Apode caespitosz, while others crawl upon the ground ; 
the Apode prorepentes. 
10. Finally, a very small number of species casts off the character of a 
‘creeping or shortened rhizome producing ezect one-leaved stems, and form 
an ordinary stem with leaves alternating with each other in the usual way. 
These, the Caulescentes, close the genus. The parallel of these is to be 
found among the Labiated Stelises. 
SATYRIUM PUMILUM.—In this species the colour of the galeate lip is 
dull yellow, striped with brown within in the manner of many Stapeliz. 
The flowers have a heavy odour of putrid flesh, also exactly resembling that 
of many Stapeliz. ‘‘ This circumstance,” remarks Bolus (Orch. S. Africa, 
i., t. 25), “‘ taken in conjunction with the marking of the lip, is of much 
interest ; though the occurrence of such a smell is not unknown in Orchids, 
notably shown in Bulbophyllum Beccarii, yet it is somewhat uncommon. 
There were no Stapeliz to be seen in the immediate vicinity. The species 
ds also structurally an interesting one. In no other is the consolidation of 
the sepals and petals carried nearly so far.” 
CULTIVATION OF Harpy OrcHIDs.—The following note is taken from 
a little Orchid Manual by Thomas Appleby, published about sixty years 
ago:—*‘ If any enterprising cultivator is desirous of making himself famous 
in the gardening world he should try to cultivate these elegant plants (Hardy 
Orchids). If successful he would be doing a great service to his brethren 
by making known the means he has employed to succeed. Many have tried 
and failed, I verily believe, for want of perseverance. The means hitherto 
used for most of the British kinds has been to take them up with balls when 
in flower, and transplant them to the flower-border, where they soon die ; 
or to put them in pots, and keep them in a cold frame, where they languish 
for a year or two, and then appear no more. I remember my friend, Mr. 
Wm. Barnes, exhibiting some years ago a large pot. of Cypripedium 
‘Spectabile as well grown as need to be wished, with nearly twenty fine 
blossoms expanded at once. I remember also when I was a youth obtaining 
a large plant of our English Lady’s Slipper gathered near Settle, in 
Yorkshire ; it had upwards of a score of what are technically called ‘ rises’ 
on it— that is shoots, and every shoot I made into a plant by division, and 
every one grew and flourished as long as I had the care of them. The 
secret of this success arose from the fact that I took heed to plant divisions 
in a similar soil to that in which the plant had grown in its native habitat, 
and planting them also in a similar situation to that in which they greW 
