THE ORCHID WORLD. 33 



bestowed upon them ; it being composed 

 essentially of species producing the beautiful 

 and fantastic flowers whose history age alone 

 can tell. 



This noted collection is contained in several 

 substantially-built spacious houses, each one 

 being a verit- 

 able store- 

 house fi 1 1 e d 

 with the 

 wonders o f 

 Nature. Bul- 

 b o p h y 1 1 um 

 b a r b i gerum 

 with its fra- 

 gile, contin- 

 ually moving 

 lip, B . s al- 

 tatorium, o f 

 a similar 

 curious con- 

 struction, the 

 very large 

 flowering B . 

 grandiflorum, 

 and B. Hame- 

 1 1 n i i grow 

 here with 

 great vigour. 

 B. sicyobul- 

 bon, fastened 

 on a tile, B. 

 leopardinum, 

 B. nutans, and 

 the curious B. 

 Pechei are all 

 r e p r esented 

 by healthy 

 specimens ; a 

 plant of B . 

 anceps being, 

 probably, the 

 largest in cultivation 



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There are also ex- 

 cellent plants of B. polyrhizum, with its 

 branching rhizomes, the very remarkable B. 

 Ericssonii and its near relation B. virescens. 

 Notice must also be made of B. Reinwardtii 

 and B. saurocephalum. 



The Cirrhopetalums include the elegant 



C. pulchruin Cliftonii, the curious C. Fascinator, 

 C. Medusas with its remarkable flowers resem- 

 bling a head with long hair, and also a 

 variety of the same without any spots on the 

 sepals and petals, C. robustum, the pretty C. 

 Andersoni, C. Thourasii, a large plant of 



C . Masters- 

 ianum which 

 is nearly 

 always in 

 fl. o w e r , a 

 grand speci- 

 m e n of C . 

 biflorum, and 

 the very 

 elegant C. 

 g u 1 1 u latum, 

 k n o w n also 

 as B u 1 b o - 

 phylluni um- 

 bellatum, the 

 two genera 

 being very 

 closely allied. 



Renanthera 

 coccinea albi 

 is a great 

 rarity and the 

 same may 

 be said of the 

 pure - white 

 fl o w e r i n g 

 A^rides virens 

 S a n d e r . 

 Rod riguezia 

 crispa, Coelia 

 macrostachya 

 with its rosy- 

 red flowers, 

 and the 

 strange-look- 

 ing Oncidium 

 juncifolium are all in a healthy condition. A 

 plant of Eria lanata carries thirteen seed- 

 pods, all the result of self-fertilisation, and 

 suggests that insect agency is not always 

 a necessity. The genus Eria is par- 

 ticularly well represented, notable examples 

 being E. ferox and E. vestita. An 



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