66 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [Marcu, 1906. 
the rain, they received a morning syringing. When the plants were out of 
bloom they were returned to the orchard. The show of flower was at times 
very fine. Plants of Cattleya superba were seldom out of bloom; this 
species never rested and showed flower from every new growth, the colour 
varying from clear pink to deep lake. A single spike would often show 
seven blooms, and many individual flowers measured three inches in 
diameter, but, as a rule, the very large flowers were wanting in depth of 
colour. Cattleya Eldorado, blooming from November to March, presented 
a great difference of colour, from deep pink to the pure white Cattleya 
Wallisii, which is only a white Cattleya Eldorado in flower, though very 
distinct in growth. The size and depth of colour of the blotch on the 
lip, varying from deepest orange to light yellow, was very marked in the 
various plants, as also the purple spot and the frilling of the tip of the lip. 
Cattleya luteola, like C. superba, was always in growth and bloom, the 
canary-yellow flowers, produced two to eight together, showing a great 
variety in the carmine markings of the lip. Stanhopeas and Coryanthes 
usually bloomed from December to June, but if one has many plants, some 
can be found showing flower every month in the year. 
Rodriguezia secunda and laxiflora bloom in January. The former in 
the shape of a large plant makes a magnificent show. One of my plantsis 
as large as a bushel measure, and had last winter more than 100 long spikes 
of bloom. This Rodriguezia is no less ornamental in seed than in flower, 
the capsules bursting and showing the masses of infinitesimal white seeds 
which look like woolly flowers. It is very common around Para, the Mango 
trees being full of it, and it is in fact almost the only Orchid which is found 
in the city itself. There is a great difference in the plants ; some have thin 
leaves, few spikes and pale flowers, and others thick fleshy leaves, and many 
spikes with very rich cherry-coloured blossoms. The best are quite as 
handsome as S labi pull Rodriguezia laxiflora is a charm- 
ing little plant, with long pendent spikes of greenish yellow flowers with 4 
small white lip, which fill the whole air with a rich spicy fragrance. 
Scuticaria Steelii on the trees produced its rush-like leaves four feet im 
length, and in February gives an abundance of bloom which lasts long i# 
perfection. 
Catasetums and Myanthus were present in great variety, and, owing t0 
their ever-varying flowers, are always a source of wonder and delight- 
Certain premises granted, one can usually tell what the flower of a plant 
will be like, but there is no telling what a Catasetum will do. If a plant 
produced at the same time a Rose and a Lily, the two flowers are not more 
unlike than those which many of my Catasetums have produced from the 
same pseudobulb, and the same plant in different years produces wholly 
different flowers. The few Cycnoches which I have, also develop some 
