104 orchid-grower's manual. 



A. UNIFLORA TREYERANI, Bolfe.— This new variety differs from the type 

 in having transverse bars of rose colour at the base of the lip. — Peru, Colombia. 

 Fig. — Zindenia, vii. t. 310. 



A. VIRCINALIS, Linden. — A rare and pretty species, which grows about a 

 foot high, and has dark'green bulbs ; the blossoms, which are white, are spotted 

 all over with dark brown ; they are produced in June and July, and last three 

 weeks in bloom. — CoJomhia. 



ANOECTOCHILUS, Blume. 

 (Tribe Neottieae, swbtriie Spirantheae.) 

 These charming little tropical Orchids are peculiar in habit, having 

 neither erect stems, nor pseudobulbs, nor acaulescent crowns, but 

 having instead small fleshy stems or rhizomes, which creep on the 

 mossy surface of the soil, producing at intervals ovate or ovate-lanceolate 

 leaves, and rooting from the joints where the leaves are produced. 

 Their beauty consists in the metallic reticulations which cover their 

 leaf-surface, and not in their flowers, which are small and grow in erect 

 spikes from a few inches to a foot in height ; they have their dorsal 

 sepal connivent with the petals into a kind of helmet, and the lip 

 extended behind into a spur and having a fimbriated claw and a two- 

 lobed limb. The name is sometimes written Anaedochilus, but Blume 

 writes it as we have adopted above ; he has in some of his works called 

 the genus Anecochilus, and in others Anectochilus. The species, which 

 Bentham and Hooker set down as about eight in number, are found in 

 India and the Malayan Archipelago. In the following pages we have 

 noted the various forms of AnoedocJdli we have met with in cultivation. 



Culture. — The genus Anoedocliilus is one of the most remarkable of 

 the class of variegated Orchids, and to its cultivation, which is not 

 generally well understood, we will now address ourselves. All the 

 varieties are remarkable for their dwarf compact habit, perfect form, 

 and great beauty : they vary in height from two to six inches, and their 

 leaves, which are well defined, vary from two to five inches in length, 

 including the stalks, which, like the stems, are short and fleshy. The 

 foliage of all the species is singularly rich and beautiful. In some it 

 resembles the richest olive or purple velvet, regularly traversed with a 

 network of golden lines. In others the leaf is of the most lively green, 

 covered with silver tracery. 



