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Heteria sp., velvety green with three silver bars or veins, and two species 
of Ancectochilus, whose names were not given to me, also form part of the 
terrestrial department, but I regret to say that I cannot keep these little 
jewels alive. They are all attacked one after the other by a small maggot, 
which eats the hearts of the stems away, and nearly all are now dead. The 
only other local terrestrial so far is Arundina speciosa, which has tissue- 
paper-coloured flowers, with a blotch of bright yellow and purple on the 
lip. This Orchid only has from one to two flowers open at a time, which last 
about two days. I almost forgot Dendrobium macrophyllum, a plant of 
which I obtained in the district, where it is very rare, though common 
enough, I believe, in the west of the Island. The above form the best of 
the local species. There are many others, but they would have no interest 
to anyone but a botanist, and belong to the “ Botanical specimen ” order. 
In addition to the plants growing on living wood, many are hanging up 
in baskets, balls of moss and blocks of wood, under lemon and orange 
trees, and other shade-giving shrubs in the garden. I make use of every- 
thing, from Avocado pear trees to Crotons and Allamandas. Others find a 
more or less happy home under a rough bamboo trellis roof, interlaced with 
palm and cane leaves on rough stagings, and trunks of tree ferns cut into 
various lengths. 
It is somewhat difficult here to keep a mixed collection of Orchids in 
healthy condition, without going to a good deal of expense. Mostly the 
bungalows are roofed with corrugated iron, which during the heat of the day 
gets very hot, and forms also too dense a shade for Orchids. My verandah 
on the east side is thirty-six feet long and six feet wide, but I have 
extended this at a lower level for four feet with planking, roofing it over with 
areca fibre and bamboo trellis, which admits rain, light and sun, though 
the latter is somewhat tempered, and does no harm. Facing this isa gravel 
path, and beyond that again more tree cuttings, Brugmansias, and lemons, 
which are now just at a height to be of use, and have all sorts of Orchids 
hanging up on the branches. 
Here, and on the verandah extension above mentioned, I keep my mixed 
collection of species, which comprises several Cattleyas, Odontoglossums, 
Lzlias, Oncidium concolor, O. flexuosum, O. Kramerianum, Lycaste Skin- 
meri, L. aromatica, Bifrenaria Harrisone, Dendrobium aureum (Phillipines) 
D. Phalznopsis, D. densiflorum, D. superbiens (Thursday Island), D. sup- 
erbum (Borneo), Ccelogyne Dayana, C. pandurata, C. asperata, nes peltastes, 
Vandas suavis, tricolor, helvola, limbata, spathulata, Hookeriana, teres, 
Arachnanthe moschifera, Cypripedium javanicum, Mastersianum, glauco- 
phyllum, ote amabilis (West Java), P. amabilis Rimestadiana 
(East Java), P. sumatrana, P. violacea, Aérides virens, Saccolabium 
Blumei—one or two white-flowered—Grammatophyllum speciosum, and 
