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influence in increasing the strength and size of the bulb formed during the 
coming season. 
Plants that are now bearing capsules should be constantly watched, and 
immediately the pods appear to be bursting, a piece of tissue paper should 
be tied around them to prevent loss of seed. When the seed is quite ripe 
lay it on a dry shelf in the sun, and when the old plants have been repotted, 
and have commenced to root, the seed should be sown upon the soil where 
the greatest number of roots are. Until the seed germinates it should be 
kept just moist, using a very fine sprayer for the purpose. When the 
seedlings are up the plant may be suspended from the roof, and treated 
similarly to the older examples, but they must not be disturbed until the 
following spring. The best method, I have found, is to place several of these 
young bulbs around the edge of the smallest sized pots, and to suspend 
them well up to the roof glass of the house. They require assiduous care 
as regards watering, &c., but with generous and skilful treatment will flower 
in three or four years. 
W. H. WHITE. 
Burford. 
AN AQUATIC ORCHID. 
In the last number of Hooker’s Icones Plantarum a figure is given of a 
remarkable aquatic Orchid. It is Habenaria repens, Nutt. (t. 2686), and is 
described by Mr. Rolfe as follows :— 
“A very distinct and widely diffused species, readily distinguished by 
its submersed creeping stems, without tubers, and numerous long roots. 
Dr. Rusby remarks that it is a characteristic water plant, and his specimen 
has a dense mass of roots at the base of the flowering stem, and Jenman 
records it as ‘aquatic in 40 foot trench.’ The upper part of the stem is 
erect, and bears several aoa which gradually~ decrease in size up to the 
inflorescence.” 
It is aquatic or subaquatic, in marshes and ditches, and is found on the 
coast-lands of the Caribbean Sea and round the Gulf of Mexico to Florida 
and South Carolina, also in Cuba, Jamaica, British Guiana, the Lower 
Orinoco, and Brazil. The flowers are green, and are borne in oblong spikes, 
so that in this respect it resembles a good many others in the genus. 
DIPLOCENTRUM CONGESTUM, Wight, is another remarkable Orchid of 
which a figure is given (t. 2687). It is a native of South India, and is an 
ally of Saccolabium, but differs in the possession of two spurs at the base 
of the lip, in which respect it resembles the genus Satyrium. It recently 
flowered in the Kew collection. 
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