Coelogyne 



to expect. Sophronitis is not a move brilliant red. 

 If possible, it should be Imng up in a temperature 

 not exceedinj? 40° during the winter. Mr. Over- 

 sluys found CocJtIioda Noetzliana growing upon 

 bushes in a situation where it must be fr(]zen hard 

 sometimes. Under such conditions it will push a 

 spike eighteen inches long or more. That rarely 

 happens in cultivatidu, but a wreath <if ten or 

 fifteen flowers is common enough. And that makes 

 a spectacle to remember. The lili>(ims are curiously 

 depressed fnun the centre outwards like a boss. 

 The column, " like a snail-shell," is violet, and the 

 disc golden, setting off the vivid scarlet of petal 

 and sepal to the utternn)st. Peru. 7s. 6r/. 



CceloCtYNe. (Ho11(>w stigma.) 



So many of our cool orchids are American that 

 natives of the Old World may feel it a pleasant 

 change to hear of a genus all their own. Ccelogynes 

 dwell in the East Indies, Assam, Nepaul, especially 

 the islands, Java, Borneo, etc. Though not so 

 bright in colour or graceful in form as many genera 

 of orchid, they have a varied beauty, an a^^sthetic 

 iinish — in the proper meaning of that ill-used 

 adjective— which appeal to the liigher taste. The 

 loveliness of Odontoglussuvi crkinirn is perfect. It 

 may rightly be termed angelic, if angels be all 



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