28 ORCHIDS FOR EVERYONE 



ARPOPHYLLUM 



Formerly a great favourite with exhibitors, because it could be 

 easily grown into a large specimen, Arpophyllum giganteum has 

 been dethroned by the more showy Cattleyas and Laelias. It 

 has slender pseudo-bulbs, green, leathery leaves, and foot-long 

 cylindrical spikes of small, rosy-purple flowers. This, as well as 

 the similar, but red-purple A. spicatum, requires plenty of light 

 and moisture, and a position with the Cattleyas, or at the coolest 

 end of the Intermediate House. A. giganteum often used to be 

 found growing with the utmost freedom in a mixed collection of 

 stove plants. 



BRASSAVOLA 



One species alone makes this genus famous, and it is the large- 

 flowered B. DiGBYANA, from British Honduras. It is attractive 

 by reason of its big, greenish-white, purple-tinted lip, that often 

 measures four inches or more across. The narrow sepals and 

 petals are pale green. The plant has the habit of a Lselia, will 

 succeed with the Laelias, and was formerly regarded as a member 

 of that genus. The broad margin of the lip is wonderfully and 

 exquisitely fringed, and this beautiful character the species has 

 given to its numerous progeny when hybridised with Laelias and 

 Cattleyas. Of less value is the compact, Mexican B. glauca, 

 which has green sepals and petals, and a pure white lip with pink 

 marks in the throat. 



BRASSIA 



The Brassias are easily grown Orchids, and as they have 

 attractive flowers, often brightly coloured, and always of elegant 



