COELIA. 



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Co ELI A, Liniley. 

 (Ti'ibc Epidcndreao, xubti-ihc Ericae.) 

 A small genus of epiphytes, the bases of whose stems eventually 

 thicken into pseudobulbs. They have narrow elongate plicately venose 

 leaves, and from the base of the bulbs dense racemes of moderate-sized 

 flowers on short erect scapes ascend above the foliage. The four or five 

 known species are natives of the West Indies, Central America, and 

 Mexico. 



CttZto-e.— These plants do best in pots, in a compost of peat and moss, 

 with a little charcoal added, and should be grown in the Cattleya house. 



C. BELLA, Rchh. /.—A very 

 pretty species, furnished ivith 

 roundish-ovate compressed pseu- 

 dobulbs, three or four ensiform 

 nervose leaves, and short upright 

 radical scapes bearing from four 

 to seven funnel-shaped fragrant 

 fleshy flowers, of which the 

 sepals and petals are creamy 

 white, broadly tipped with rich 

 magenta, and the lip is yellow, 

 with a rather prominent front 

 lobe. It flowers during the 

 autumn months. — Guatemala. 



Fia.~Lcm. Jard. J^/., iii. t. 32.5 ; 

 Orchid Album, ii. t. 51 ; But. Maq.. 

 t. 6628. 



Syn. — Jiifretiaria bdla ; Botli- 

 riocMlns bellus. 



COELIA BELLA. 



C. MACROSTACHYA, Lindley. — An erect-growing distinct species, with 

 rather large and nearly globose pale green glabrous pseudobulbs, which arc 

 invested at the base with coarse brown scaly envelopes, and bear at the top about 

 three large lanceolate membranous plicate leaves a foot or more in length, 

 sheathing at the base. From the base of the pseudobulbs arises the flower 

 scape, which is about a span high, clothed with large ovate involute brownish 

 scales, and surmounted by a cylindrical raceme, nine or ten inches long, crowded 

 with rather small bright rosy-red flowers in the axils of long narrow brownish 

 bracts. The concave fleshy sepals are oblong acute, corrugated externally, deep 

 rosy-red, the oblong-ovate petals, as long as the sepals, are blush-white, and the 

 reflexed oblong-acute lip is white, continued below into a two-lobed blunt spur. 

 It blooms in August, and with its long cylindrical flower spikes is very effec- 

 tive. — Mexico. 



Fig.— But. Mag., t. 4712. 



