COCHLIODA. 199 



COCHLIODA, Lindley. 



{Tribe Vancleae, suhtribe Oncidieae.) 

 Some of the plants here included appeared in the previous editions 

 of this work under the name of Mesos2n7udium of Eeichenbach, but 

 Cochlioda was established by Lindley many years previous upon a 

 Peruvian plant wliich has not yet been introduced to our collections in a 

 living state, and tlie plants here included appear to accord with that, so 

 that there is nothing to prevent us accepting this as the generic name 

 for them, for they are singularly alike. Lindley says : " The habit is 

 that of Odontoglossum ; the lip and column would refer it to Upiden- 

 drum; the pollen masses and caudicle are such as we find in no 

 neighbouring genus ; the calli on the lip placed just in front of the 

 anther are narrow, raised, and fleshy, and each is furnished at the point 

 with a bivalve gland which opens vertically." The species are natives 

 of the Peruvian Andes. 



Culture. — The plants of this genus are evergreens, requiring cool 

 treatment, and are best grown in baskets suspended from the roof, as 

 they produce drooping spikes of flower from the sides of the pseudo- 

 bulbs. They should be placed in a compost of peat and moss, giving 

 them a liberal supply of water during the growing season. They are 

 propagated by dividing the pseudobulbs. 



C. NOEZLIANA, Rolfe. — -A handsome and distinct novelty introduced 

 independently by the Horticulture Internationale and Messrs. Charlesworth, 

 Shuttleworth & Co. The pseudobulbs are compressed, ovate-oblong; leaves 

 lineate, acute ; scape arcuate, many-flowered ; sepals oblong-lineate, petals ovate, 

 both of a rich orange-scarlet ; the lip trifid, same colour as the sepals and petals 

 with a golden-yellow disk; column violet-purple, which colour produces a 

 striking contrast with the remainder of the flower. Named in honour of M. 

 Jean Noezli. — South America : Peru {?). 



¥ia.—L'OrcJtif!(>2)7iile, 1892. p. 272 (plate) ; Liiidi-nia, vi. t. 266 ; Seine Hurt. Beige. 

 1892, p. 49, t. 5. 



C. ROSEA, BentJi,. — This very pretty little species is when well grown a 

 charming plant. It is closely allied to C. vulcanica, but its flowers are not so 

 brilliant in colour as those of that plant. Its pseudobulbs are ovate, two-edged, 

 dark-green tinted with violet, the leaves ligulate oblong bluntish, and the flowers 

 are produced in drooping racemes, each flower about an inch across, rosy- 

 carmine with the tip of the column white ; the sepals and petals are oblong- 

 elliptic, the lip cuneate at the base, three-lobed, the lateral lobes small enclosing 

 the disk, which bears a four-lobed callus, the middle lobe longer, linear, dilated 

 at the end. It flowers during the winter months, producing from 12 to 20 



