Sophronitis 



on the true lip. Winter. New Granada. 1869. 

 10s. 6c/. 



Elegmis resembles this very closely on a smaller 

 scale. Winter. Veneznela. 1850. 7s. Qd. 



randnruta (fiddle-shaped— of lip).— Smaller still. 

 White, with crimson dots. Winter. New Granada. 

 1890. 



Sophronitis. (Modest.) 



One species of this genus is invaluable. There 

 are very few scarlet orchids in cultivation — only 

 CocJilioda Noetzliana in the cool house besides 

 this. JEpidendrum vitellimim is orange-scarlet ; so 

 is Ladia monoplujlla. All Sophronitis are easily 

 grown under the treatment of Odontoglossums ; 

 but they do best in pans or baskets near the light. 



Cermia. — A. very pretty little flower, but incon- 

 spicuous unless in quantity ; four to six, however, 

 appear upon a spike. They are pale rosy-scarlet 

 bells, touched with crimson lake and yellow in the 

 centre. I have seen this ujjon a block with fifteen 

 or twenty spikes, and then it is singularly graceful. 

 November to January. Brazil. 1826. 3.s. Qd. 



Coccinea (red). — As a rule this is, in effect, a less 

 handsome variety of the species follo^ying, from 

 which it is only distinguished in appearance by a 



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