ORCHIDS AT HOME. 



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these igaripes the green flowered epidendrums abound, of foliage, and we feared we were doomed to pass the 

 and occasionally we find Rodriqiiczia secunda, OiiciJiuin night in the canoe in a low igaripe, where tens of mil- 



FiG. I. CvpRiPEDiOM RoTHScHiLDiANUM. See page 89. 



C(?/^f/A'A7 and that charming little orchid, Onndiuiii iridi- lions would be a low estimate of the numbers of the 

 foliitin. ever companionable mosquitos ! 



Suddenly the stream seemed to end in an abrupt wall But no ! The stream turned a right angle, spread out 



