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and produces its erect spikes of white flowers very freely. There are 

 some three or four species, M'hich are natives of China, Cochin China, 

 and the Malayan Archipelago. 



Culture. — A useful stove plant when grown in five or six inch pots, 

 several plants being put into a pot so as to make up a good specimen. 

 We grow many of them in this way for blooming during the winter 

 mouths, placing about six plants in a pot. They should be grown 

 vigorously so as to ensure an abundance of bloom. In other respects 

 the treatment noted for Goodijera will suit them. Even without any 

 flowers, the plants themselves are by no means unattractive. See also 

 under AnoedocMlus. 



H. DISCOLOR, Lindl. — A Yerj handsome and free-blooming dwarf Orchid 

 of the variegated foliage group. It grows about 10 inches higli, and has deep 

 purple fleshy stems, clothed with o-^-ate leaves of a beautiful dark velvety-green, 

 purplish-red beneath, and having a ivhite l)ar in the centre through their entire 

 length; the flowers are white, with a little j-ellow in the centre, and are 

 produced in winter, lasting a long time in perfection. — JIong-Kong. 



YlG.—Lodd. But. Cal.. t. 143 ; Bot. Itcg ., t. 271 ; Bot. Marj ., t. 2055. 



8yn. — G nod y era di«coUir. 



H. DISCOLOR DAWSONIANA, Rdil. f.~k very ornamental-leaved variety, 

 which was at first distributed as an Anoectochilus. The leaves are large, ovate, 

 stalked, blackish-bronzy green 

 on the upper side, and very 

 glossy, with about seven bold 

 lines of a beautiful golden- 

 coppery hue traversing them 

 from base to apex, and con- 

 nected by smaller reticulations 

 of the same colour ; the under 

 side is of a uniform dull purple. 

 The flowers, which are white, 

 are freely piroduced, and become 

 useful for bouquet making. — 

 Malay Islands. 



¥m.—Fhin'desSi-rres.t.lOS3. 



Srx. — Aiwriicltdus Batcsuii- 

 imnnn ; Antirrtorl/du.); Baw^nu- 

 iuitum ; Goodijcra Baicsoniana. 



H. DISCOLOR ORDIANA, 



Williams. — A very desirable 



])lant, which in habit, and in the 



shape of the leaf, closely resembles H. discolor Dansoniana. but the colour is a 



vivid green, instead of a deep brown, the leaves being lined out with golden 



veins. — Malaij Islands. 



Syn. — Goudycra Ordiana. 



HAEMAEIA DISCOLOR DAWSONIAXA. 



