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128 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JUNE, 1917. 
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HERE are many miniature Orchids that, with little care, can be grown 
into specimens, and in that state are very floriferous and attractive, of 
which the one here figured forms a good example. It is a plant of 
Hexadesmia crurigera that was grown in the Royal Botanic Garden, 
Glasnevin, and is considerably reduced in size in the photograph. It hasa 
densely tufted habit, and the pseudobulbs are fusiform in shape, and bear 
at their apex a pair of narrow, fleshy leaves, and numerous loose racemes 
HEXADESMIA CRURIGERA. 
Fig. 16. HEXADESMIA CRURIGERA. 
of white flowers, about a quarter of an inch long, with a purple apex to the 
column. The species is a native of Central America, and was originally 
introduced from Guatemala, and flowered in the collection of James 
Bateman, Esq., at Knypersley, in 1843, being shortly afterwards described 
by Lindley (Bot. Reg., 1843, Misc. p. 2). It was figured in the Refugiwm 
Botanicum (ii. t. 92) by W. W. Wilson Saunders, being described as a very 
interesting and curious little Orchid, producing its flowers very freely. It 
was said to thrive on a block of wood or cork, on moss, in the temperature 
of the Mexican house, being kept moderately dry when at rest. It is very 
rare in cultivation at the present time, and there are several allied genera 
that are now seldom met with. 
