ii8 ORCHIDS 



Cochlioda. 

 incurved ; scape one or more, springing from the base of 

 the pseudo-bulbs. Leaves oblong or narrow, coriaceous, 

 contracted into the petioles. Pseudo-bulbs one or two- 

 leaved. The cultural requirements are similar to those 

 recommended for Odoiitoglossutii. The best species are : 



C. Noezliana (Rolfe). — Flowers orange-scarlet, about lin. across, 

 with the disk of the lip yellow ; lateral sepals longer and narrower 

 than the dorsal one and petals ; lip three-lobed, the middle lobe 

 bluntly-obcordate ; column triquetrous, dark ; peduncles nodding 

 or pendulous ; racemes many - flowered. Leaves linear-oblong, 

 acute, 4in. to 6in. long. Pseudo-bulbs i^in. to 2in. long, one- 

 leaved. South America, 1891. A most charming plant, allied 

 to C. vulcanica. Syn. Odoiitoglossum Noezliana (Hort.). (B. M., 

 t- 7474-) 



C. vulcanica {Bettth.). — Flowers 2in. across, bright rose; 

 racemes erect, slender, twelve- to twenty-flowered. Peru, 1872. 

 Syn. Mesospinidiiim vulcanicuDi. (B. M., t. 6001.) 



Var. grandiflora is deep rose, and larger than the type. 



CCELIA. 



Very curious, warm intermediate-house, epiphytal Orchids, 

 belonging to the EpidoidrecE. Lindley's name is from 

 koilos, hollow, and has reference to the pollen-masses, which 

 are convex outside, and concave inside. Sepals distinct, 

 equal, spreading ; petals nearly equal, but a little smaller 

 than the sepals ; lip quite entire, unguiculate, continuous 

 with the base of the column, which is short. These plants 

 do well under the same cultural conditions as Lycaste. 



C. bella (Rchb. f.). — This is the species most frequently met 

 with in cultivation. Flowers large, funnel-shaped, two to three 

 on a scape, yellowish-white, with rose tips to the segments ; lip 

 yellow; fragrant; produced in autumn. He St. Catherine, 1882. 

 The plant is sometimes described as Bothriochihis bellus. (B. M., 

 t. 6628.) 



C(ELI0P5IS. 



A warm intermediate-house, epiphytal Orchid, of the 

 tribe Vandccr, and thriving under similar cultural condi- 

 tions to Epidendrum. The name Cceliopsis {Rchb. f.) is 

 from Ccelia, and opsis, like. 



