soo 



CASSELL S POPULAR GAKDEXIXG. 



introduced, but speedily lost caste ; in fact it was too 

 accommodating, for it had been found in large 

 quantities, it travelled well, and soon sold for a very 

 low price, and thus in spite of its extreme beauty it 

 came to be despised ; nevertheless, it is deserving of a 

 place in the choicest collection. It is a free-growing 

 plant, with oblong compressed pseudo-bulbs, smooth, 

 ■about three inches high and light green; leaves 



petils somewhat lanceolate, the latter broader, all 

 being lengthened out into slender tail-like points, 

 creamy - white, profusely spotted with reddish- 

 brown ; in some forms these spots are a deep 

 crimson -maroon ; lip broad at the base, where it 

 is yellow, ornamented with radiating lines of 

 reddish-orange ; the apex lengthened out like the 

 petals, and the same colour. It flowers at various 



