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Cycnoches are represented among others by C. Egertonianum, which 
flowered as long ago as 1843 in the collection of Mr. R. S. Holford, at 
Westonbirt ; and the genus Peristeria includes the stately P. elata, long 
known as the Dove Orchid from the fancied resemblance of the column and 
beaked anther, combined with the ascending side lobes of the lip, to the 
figure of a dove. 
Each of the genera Habenaria, Microstylis and Stelis are represented by 
from forty to fifty species, but few of them are of horticultural value. 
Spiranthes comprises some fifty species in this area, and many of the less 
important genera are more or less represented. A feature at the Ghent 
Shows is the specimen plants, and on past occasions fine examples have 
been seen of Vanilla planifolia, including the variety with variegated foliage, 
and V. pompona. 3 
The genus Lelia has many well-known species in Central America, the 
most popular being the Mexican L. anceps; also L. albida, first introduced 
to European gardens in 1832; L. autumnalis, a pleasing species seen at its 
best in the late autumn months; and L. rubescens, also known as A 
acuminata. Schomburgkia tibicinis was discovered on the highlands of 
Honduras, where it is plentiful; the Indians make the old hollow stems 
Serve as horns. 
Cattleyas are not quite so numerous here as in the more southern parts, 
but they include the elegant C. citrina, C. labiata, C. Bowringiana, C. 
granulosa, and C. Skinneri. Several fine Sobralias may be mentioned: S. 
macrantha, S. xantholeuca, with its several varieties, S. Wilsoniana, and Ss. 
valida from the Panama district. A very large number of other species 
could .be mentioned, but the above comparatively brief list will show that 
the Central American area is particularly rich in attractive Orchids. 
rA.—This was one of the earliest epiphytal 
BROUGHTONIA SANGUIN : 
t Kew Gardens in 
Orchids cultivated in England, it having been grown a 
1793. It is a native of Jamaica, where it grows upon the old trunks of 
trees not far from the seashore, often in company with Brassavola nodosa. 
The flowers are bright crimson-purple with an orange-yellow blotch at the 
base of the lip. 
i 
SPATHOGLOTTIS AUREA.—This species is of considerable interest to both 
Its large spoon-like cauline bracts are 
while the flowers are 
S. aurea was 
botanists and_ horticulturists. 
peculiar to it, and strongly mark its specific character, 
the largest and most handsomely coloured in the genus. per ie 
discovered by Thomas Lobb in 1849, when collecting for Messrs. Veitch in 
Malacca. Only a few plants reached England alive, and they gradually 
died out after flowering one or two seasons. 
