192 ORCHIDS FOR EVERYONE 



HOULLETIA 



A small genus of interesting Orchids, from Columbia and 

 Brazil. The species will succeed in the stove if treated in the same 

 way as advised for Stanhopeas. The leaves are large and erect, the 

 racemes tall and erect, carrying from six to a dozen flowers. The 

 sepals and petals are wide spread, mostly yellow or brown, with 

 darker markings. The best species are H. Brocklehurstiana, 



H. CHRYSANTHA, and H. ODORATISSIMA, 



lONOPSIS 



Two very pretty little Orchids belong to this genus, and they 

 hail respectively from Brazil and Central America. They are of 

 lowly growth, rarely exceeding five inches in height, but their 

 branching panicles of small elegant flowers are eighteen inches long. 

 I. PANicuLATA has white, rosy-flushed flowers, with the lip stained 

 at the base with purple. I. utricularioides is rather smaller than 

 /. paniculata^ and has white flowers with a rosy base to the lip. 

 The lonopsis grow best in the Intermediate House, in shallow pans 

 or small baskets, planted in equal proportions of peat and 

 sphagnum. 



IPSEA 



The one species, Ispea speciosa, is not often cultivated, but 

 it is a pretty and interesting plant from Ceylon, where it is found 

 at a considerable elevation growing among the grass. It is 

 deciduous, about eight inches high when in growth, and fifteen or 

 eighteen inches high when in bloom. It has a tuberous root, and 



