A FEW HINTS ON THE MANAGEMENT OF ORCHIDEOUS EPIPHYTES. 139 
Our plants thrive well in the stove, potted in turfy peat. M. picta. — This elegant 
species bears solitary flowers,, on stems which proceed from the root. The flowers 
are yellow, beautifully spotted by purple and red. Our plants thrive well in the 
stove, potted in turfy peat and potsherds. M. Harrisonice is a strong growing 
plant ; the flower stem is produced at the root, and generally contains two flowers 
of the most delightful fragrance ; the petals and sepals are white, and the labellum 
purple. The plants thrive well in the stove potted in turfy peat. M. Deppei. — 
Flower stem erect, single-flowered, sepals green, petals white, and labellum yellow. 
Our plant thrives in turfy peat soil, in a damp stove. M. galeata produces nine or 
ten flowers on a drooping raceme. The flowers are yellowish green. It is now 
called Acropera Loddigesii. The M. Warreana, a woodcut of which had been 
made for the Hort. Reg. from the excellent figure given by Messrs. Loddiges. JBot. 
Cab. 1834. The sepals and petals are a delicate white 5 and the labellum is marked 
with purple and yellow. We grow it in a pot of turfy peat, well drained, and keep 
it in a damp hothouse. M. JBarringtonice. — This species requires to be placed in the 
hottest part of the stove, and will grow potted in turfy peat. The flowers are 
yellowish green. 
L^eli a anceps. — This beautiful plant is in the possession of Messrs. Loddiges ; 
we have never yet seen it in flower, but from the figure of it given by Dr. Lindley 
(Bot. Reg. 1 7^1) it appears to be a first-rate kind. 
Leptotes bucolor. — The flowers of the species are delicate, sepals and petals 
are pure white, labellum rose-coloured and column green ; the flower stems are short, 
and generally produce three flowers each. Our plants grow freely in turfy peat, 
placed in the stove. They will also grow well in moss and broken potsherds. 
Monacanthus. — Two species only of this genus have yet been found, the 
M. viridis and discolor. They both require precisely the same treatment as the 
Catasetums. 
Myanthus.— Only two species of this genus are yet in our collections. The 
M. cernuus bears flowers of a yellowish green, spotted with purple ; the spike 
grows from the root about a foot long, and produces many drooping flowers. M. 
barbatus is quite new to this country. See plate, page 124. 
Oncidium. — Many species of the genus are very beautiful, as O.flexuosum, 
a native of Brazil, producing a branching panicle of many flowers of a bright 
yellow. It is easily cultivated in turfy peat and potsherds, in a damp stove. 
0. bifolium will grow in a pot of turfy peat, well drained, as well as on a stove. 
See Vol. 1, page 234. 0. crispum. — The flowers of this species are much curled, 
and of a reddish copper colour : flower- stem arises from the base, and produces 
many flowers. O. allissimum. This, with a favourable growth, will reach ten 
feet high ; the flower-stem is branching, and contains an abundance of yellow 
flowers spotted with brown. 0. papilio. — For singularity of appearance, but 
few equal, perhaps none exceed this species. It is a native of Trinidad. It 
produces single flowers on long naked flower-stems, which succeed each other for 
many months if the stem be preserved ; the colour a bright yellow blotched with rich 
brown. It thrives best with us fastened to a piece of wood, and hung up in a 
damp stove. 0. bicornutum is a native of Rio. The panicle of flowers is hand- 
