NOVEMBER, 1903. | THE ORCHID REVIEW. 329 
HEXADESMIA CRURIGERA. 
THE annexed illustration represents a very pretty and floriferous little 
Orchid from the rich collection at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, 
under the care of Mr. F. M. Moore. The photograph was taken by Mr. 
Leo Farmar, and is considerably reduced. Hexadesmia crurigera is a 
native of Central America, which was introduced from Guatemala, and 
flowered in the collection of the late James Bateman, Esq., in 1843, being 
described by Lindley (Bot. Reg., 1844, Misc., p. 2). It afterwards appeared 
in the collection of Consul Schiller, at Hamburg, and was figured by 
Reichenbach (Xen. Orch., i, p. 168, t. 59, fig. 1), and still later in the 
Fic. 49. HEXADESMIA CRURIGERA. 
Refugium Botanicum (vol. ii, t. 92), when it was described by W. Wilson 
Saunders as a very interesting and curious Orchid, producing its flowers 
very freely. It was said to thrive on a block of wood or cork, with a 
little moss, in the temperature of the Mexican house, being kept moderately 
dry when at rest. It has also been collected in Costa Rica. It grows in 
dense tufts, and the pseudobulbs are fusiform in shape, and bear a pair of 
very narrow leaves at their apex. The flowers are borne in short terminal 
racemes, and are campanulate, and 34 lines long, with the apex of the 
column dark purple. It isa charming little specimen, and shows what the 
species 1s capable of when properly cared for. 
