ORCHIDACEjE. 



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Class, Gynandria. Order*, Monandria. 



Eria stellata — Nepaul — 1824 — Division. 



Flowers a yellowish white; lip light yellow, 

 spotted with red. 



rosea — China — 1824 — Division. 



Flowers rosy pink and white, small, but very 

 pretty. 



There are many more of this genus, which are 

 more curious than pretty. 



The Eriae tribe require a mixture of tufty peat, 

 rough lumps of decayed wood or bark, an inch 

 square, and potsherds ; this composition is only 

 for such plants as are grown in pots. If it be re- 

 quired to suspend them from the roof of the house, 

 rough baskets made of bark will answer best ; thus 

 treated, they flower more freely than when in pots. 

 It may not be unnecessary to remark in this place, 

 that slugs delight to feed on Orchidese plants, and 

 consequently must be guarded against. The best 

 preventive is to plunge the materials used for the 

 growth of these plants into boiling water previous 

 to planting, allowing such to remain in the water 

 until they are hot quite through, which will not 

 only destroy the young slugs, but also the ova, 

 and thereby prevent much mischief, Should this 

 precaution have been neglected, and the slugs are 

 damaging the plants, plunge them over head in 

 water heated to about 80° Fahrenheit ; allow them 

 to remain in the water a few minutes, so that the 



