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The flower spikes, which are produced from the top of the bulbs, grow from 

 eight inches to a foot high ; the blossoms are beautiful dark purple and rose ; 

 they are produced during April and May, and last three weeks in perfection. 

 If required for exhibition this should be kept at the coolest end of the house, 

 for it will generally come in too early if not kept back. — Mexico. 

 Fia.— Warner, Sul. Orch. PI., i. t. 39. 



A. SPICATUM, Llave et Lex. — -A pretty evergroen Orchid, with arcuate 

 keeled leaves, and an erect spike of dark red flowers, which continue in beauty 

 three or four weeks during the winter months. — Mexico. 



FlG.—J3ot. Mag., t. 6022. 



ARUNDINA, Blume. 

 (Tribe Epidendreae, subtribe Coelogyneae.) 



A genus of terrestrial Orchids, of considerable beauty. They have 

 erect reed-like leafy stems invested by the leaf-sheaths, and terminal 

 loose racemes of large showy flowers, in which the sepals are spreading 

 and the lip sessile, spurless, concave at the base surrounding the column. 

 The few species are found in India and the Malay Archipelago. 



Culture. — They are free-growing and free-rooting Orchids, but 

 having only thin reed-like stems, and no fleshy pseudobulbs to draw 

 upon for support, they require to be potted in richer soil than 

 many others. That best suited to them is good rough fibrous peat 

 and loam mixed together. 

 The plants should be grown 

 in the cool end of the East 

 Indian house, and must have 

 a good supply of water during 

 the growing season, the soil 

 being also kept moderately 

 moist when they are at rest. 

 They need plenty of light, but 

 require shading during strong 

 sunshine. They are propagated 

 by dividing the crowns, and 

 also by taking off and potting 

 the young plants produced on 

 the stems. 



A. BAMBUSAEFOLIA, Lindley.—k. fine evergreen terrestrial Orchid, with 

 reed-like stems, three to five feet high, producing its fiowers from the top of 



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AKUNDINA BAMBUSAEFOLIA. 



