CCELOGYNE — CORYANTHES. 



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This plant should be potted level with the pot rim, and 

 some silver sand should be mixed with the peat, which 

 ought to be finer than for the others. 



Ccel. speciosa, — A desirable plant from Borneo, ever- 

 green, and about eight inches high ; the flowers are brown 

 and white, and are produced on a short spike, two or more 

 together, at different times of the year. It lasts long in 

 bloom. 



Ccel. WallicJiiana. — A truly handsome dwarf species 

 from India. A deciduous plant, producing its solitary 

 flowers in October and November, and lasting two weeks 

 in beauty. The colour is of a deep rose, and the lip the 

 same, with a dash of white in the centre ; the blossoms are 

 three or four inches across. This has always been a rare 

 plant ; but within the last year a fresh importation has 

 made it rather more plentiful. This requires to be grown 

 the same as maculata. 



CORYANTHES. 

 These are very large, extraordinary-looking flowers. Be- 

 fore the flowers open they are in the shape of a Chinese foot ; 

 after opening, the flowers form a sort of a cup, having above 

 it a pair of fleshy horns, from which a sort of liquid exudes 

 and drops into the cup. They produce their flowers from 

 the bottom of the bulbs on a spike, one or two together. 

 The plants are evergreen, with leaves ten inches long, on 

 short bulbs three inches high. The leaves are two or 

 three inches broad. They will grow either in baskets or 

 pots, with moss and peat and good drainage ; they require 

 a liberal supply of water at the roots during their period 

 of grow^th, with a good heat. After they have made their 

 grow^th they should be kept rather dry, so that their bulbs 

 be not allowed to shrivel. They are propagated by divi- 

 sion of the bulbs. 



