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Air. Etolfe considers this species very variable as to sizo, and colour, of 

 flowers. It is a good doer and Likes an intermediate house tomperature. 



By chance I discovered an orchid which, though apparently of creeping 

 habit, would only thrive in an upright position. No one would ever feel 

 surprised at seeing Vanda tricolor, I ' I una nth era coccinca, or Sobralia 



maoromtha growing in an upright position. To put it shortly, " they aro 

 built that way," but to see Cocluyyne triplicaiula growing upright is 

 quite another matter. It Looks almost uncanny. It has been in the 

 Glasnevirj oolleotion over five years, and the slide shows what stupid 

 mi bakes may be made. Tin- angle of the imported pseudo-bulb towards 

 bhe stem spoke eloquently, hut 1 would not heed, and put the stem Hat ; 

 Lt Btruggled for two years, making poor weak growths, and looking 

 thoroughly unhappy, the pseudo-bulbs keeping at a curious angle. Told 

 to put it any way he liked, my grower put it upright, and the result was 

 magical. It made in a lew months a strong growth which flowered, and 

 each year since, further progress. This plant is very scarce. It comes 

 from India- (Moulniein), and was described by Iveichenbach in 186-1. The 

 Mowers are brownish yellow, the lip darker with marked keols. 



Take now a few orchids with marked peculiarities. Several genera 

 possess species which seem to be highly self-fertile, and in thes3 species 

 the Bowers often open imperfect 1 y, and are unattractive. A well-known 



oase is that of Dendrobium Brymerianum, of which there are two 

 varieties, one of w hich is not worth growing. Cymbidiwm grandiflorum 

 of Griffin, more generally known as C. Ifookcrianum, being dedicated to 

 Sir Joseph Hooker, who found it growing wild in the Sikkim Himalayas, 

 is another, i\ is figured in"Bot. Mag." t. 5574. Orchid-growers know 



that some forms of this persistently refuse to open their llowers. The 

 ovary begins to swell, the flowers turn yellow and drop off. According 

 to Mr. Seden, Mr. O'Brien, Mr. Kolfe, and others, the Glasnevin variety 

 of this (fig, 58) is the best known. It is free, vigorous, and lloriferous, 

 and the llowers open well. This year it had four inllorosconces. 



In August IS!);*) Mr. Measures got a botanical certificate for Pleu-ro- 

 thalllS immcrsd, a very curious and well-named orchid. The flower 

 raohis is Literally immersed in the leaf. The midrib becomos hollowod 

 into a channel, or rather tunnel, m w hich the (lower stalk is enclosed, but 

 bhe edges are Dot united on the upper surface, and the stalk, which is not 

 visible until it becomes free, can be pulled Out. It bocomes free about 



half way up the Leaf, and thus seems bo spring from bhe middle of the 



surface of the Leaf. 



We have conic bo regard the labellum in the position in which we 

 usually Bee it as the normal position of the flower, but just to keop us 



right some species Mower without any torsion, and then we have the 

 Labellum in bhe lippei part of the flower, and apparently upside down. 



Etta globifera } a new speoies from Annam, described by Rolfs from 



the Glasnevin plant, illustrates this, lt is very happily named, as tho 

 small pseudo-bulbs are globoso. It flowered last year for the lirst time. 

 Let me now turn to the masqueraders. Dcndrobium ci/mbidioides 



is not considered rare or uncommon. If exists, or was thought to exist, 



in se\eral collections. I got if from Java, and it llowored twenty yoars 

 ago. It w as formally identified for me in l<StS<), and 1 had no doubt 



