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Stove or East Indian House. Considered individually the blooms 

 are not large or very attractive, the colour being pale ochreous 

 yellow, with chocolate brown lines and blotch on the lighter, often 

 whitish, lip. But these flowers are borne on graceful pendulous 

 racemes from two to three feet long, and one of these racemes will 

 consist of two dozen blooms. A good specimen carrying a number 

 of these floral necklaces makes a charming picture. 



C. Massangeana comes from Assam and has much the same 

 habit as C. Dayana^ but is not quite such a strong grower. More- 

 over, it will succeed in less heat than is necessary for the latter 

 species. The Intermediate House will suit it. The pendulous 

 racemes carry twenty or more flowers, which are light yellow, with 

 a brown lip that is veined and crested with bright yellow and edged 

 with white. 



C. OCELLATA, a pretty, compact species about nine inches high, 

 is best grown in a shallow pan, with the Odontoglossums, and 

 wintered with the Cattleyas. It has semi-erect spikes of white 

 flowers, the lip having two yellow, orange-circled spots and a brown 

 throat. C. ocellata maxima has flowers three inches across, and 

 sweetly scented. 



C. PANDURATA is a very striking Orchid, and its large flowers 

 invariably attract attention and comment because of their unusual 

 colouring. The sepals and petals are green, while the fiddle-shaped, 

 warted lip is yellowish green, heavily veined and blotched with black. 

 The long, semi-drooping spikes carry five or six flowers. The 

 leaves are from eighteen inches to two feet in length, and the oval, 

 compressed pseudo-bulbs are set rather widely apart on the stout 

 rhizome, consequently a long raft or basket is needed to accommodate 

 the plant. As this interesting species comes chiefly from the hot, 

 moist parts of Borneo a hot, moist position must be provided for it. 

 The writer has grown it with considerable success in sphagnum and 



