THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
229 
January 9.1 
HOTHOUSE DEPARTMENT. 
EXOTIC ORCHIDACE/E. 
plants that thriye well in pots (Continued from 
j)age 194J. 
Cirrh.ea bractescens (Bracted C.); Brazil.—Sepals 
and petals white ; the lip yellow and fleshy, divided into 
two lobes, or parts, and each part is folded twice. 42s. 
C. lasvis (Smooth C.); Brazil.—Sepals and petals 
large, and of a bright yellow colour; lip same colour, 
and spotted with brown. 42s. 
C. Loddigesii (Mr. Loddige's); Brazil. — Sepals 
greenish yellow, striped across with dark red, and 
spotted ; petals the same colour without stripes ; lip the 
same colour, but curiously formed. 21s. 
C. tristis (Sad-coloured C.); Mexico.—Sepals and 
petals dark-coloured, almost purple, tinged with blood 
colour, and greenish yellow; the lip purple. The 
flowers are fragrant. This is the most common of all 
the genus. 15s. 
Culture. —Though the flowers of this genus are not so 
showy as a Cattleya or a Dendrobium, yet they are worth 
growing, because they are produced on long pendulous 
racemes springing numerously from the base of the 
pseudo-bulbs, and bearing many flowers on each. At 
some of the exhibitions at the Regent’s Park, and Chis¬ 
wick, plants of this tribe were shown with thirty or 
forty of these spikes of their pretty fragrant flowers 
hanging down, and all round the sides of the pots in 
which they grow. 
The compost they thrive best in, is chopped sphagnum 
(a white moss found growing in boggy springy ground); 
very turfy peat, broken, and the small sifted out, using 
only the fibrous part; and a free mixture of small broken 
potsherds. If a little half-decayed leaf-mould is added, 
it will be found serviceable. Pot them in March, or as 
soon as they begin to grow; keep them in the coolest 
part of the Indian house, and water always moderately, 
even during the growing season. In winter keep them 
without water for six weeks or two months. At whatever 
season the water is given, let it be of the same temperature 
as the air of the house. This applies, of course, to all 
orchids as well as Cirrhaeas. The annual growth of these 
plants ought to be finished by the middle of August, and 
then their winter, or season of rest, ought to commence. 
To induce quietude, place them in a cooler temperature, 
and give water very seldom, only just enough to prevent 
the whole plant from drying away. The season for 
flowering is May and June. 
Ccelogyne barbata (Bearded C.); Ivhoosea Hills, 
East Indies.—Sepals and petals white; the lip the same 
colour, streaked with bright yellow, and fringed at the 
margin. Rare. 63s. 
C. ciustata (Crested C.); Nepal.—It is found growing 
on rocks, and in the hollows of branches of trees, where 
the leaves and small twigs afford nourishment to the 
plants. This is the finest species of the whole genus. 
The flowers are produced at the base of the pseudo¬ 
bulbs, on long racemes. They are very fragrant and 
large, sometimes measuring four inches across each 
flower. Sepals and petals pure white; lip wliite, with 
the centre raised into plaits or crests—-hence its name. 
These are bright yellow, which contrasts strikingly with 
the delicate transparent white of the rest of the flower. 
A very desirable free-growing species. 42s. 
C. Cummingii (Mr. Cumming’s) ; Sincapore.—Sepals 
and petals white ; lip bright yellow, with three white 
elevated plaits or ridges upon it, terminating with deep 
orange-coloured edges; very pretty, but shy to flower 
till the plant is of considerable size and strength. Rare. 
42s. 
C. elata (Tall C.); East Indies. — Sepals and petals 
white ; lip also white, but has a stain of yellow at the 
end. The leaves are a foot long ; the pseudo-bulbs are 
large and oblong, the raceme of flowers springing from 
the top of them; a circumstance very unusual in this 
genus. 42s. 
C. fdliginosa (Sooty C.); East Indies.—Sepals and 
petals cream colour, transparent and shining; lip of 
the same colour, but has also numerous large blotches 
and streaks of a dark sooty brown—hence its specific 
name. It is also delicately fringed at the edge. The 
flowers are produced on a stem that is terminal, like 
C. elata. Worth cultivating. 42s. 
C. Gardneriana (Dr. Gardner’s) ; Ivhoosea Hills.— 
The whole flower is white, tinged with yellow. This is a 
handsome early flowering species. The pseudo-bulbs 
are round and tapering, five or six inches long, of a 
beautiful light green colour. The leaves are produced 
at the top of these bulbs in pairs, about six inches long, 
and one and a half inch wide in the centre. The 
flower-stems spring from the base of the last formed 
bulbs. It is a handsome species. 31s. 6d. 
C. maculata (Spotted C.) ; Khoosea Hills.—Sepals 
and petals whitish; lip having the same ground colour, 
but beautifully and richly spotted with a variety of ex¬ 
quisite colours. This species was very rare till last 
year, when a large importation arrived, thus rendering 
it more plentiful. It is a bulbous species. When the 
shoots begin to advance into leaf, there are on them two 
or three curious fleshy swellings surrounding it, looking 
like green frills. 42s. 
C. ocellata (Eyed G.) ; East Indies.—Sepals and 
petals pure white; lip white, with a yellow spot in the 
centre, edged with chocolate, something like an eye— 
hence its name. Scarce. 63s. 
C. pr,ecox (Early G.); East Indies.—Very like C. 
Wattichiana, from which it differs by flowering in 
spring instead of autumn, and by the sepals and petals 
being of a paler hue, and the pseudo-bulbs smaller and 
perfectly green. Very rare. 84s. 
0. speciosa (Showy 0.); Borneo.—Sepals broad, 
bronze yellow ; petals very narrow, reflexed quite back¬ 
wards, colour white ; lip broad, the end quite white, the 
rest streaked with rich brown ; large flowers, and a rare, 
handsome species. 63s. 
C. Waluchiana (Dr. Wallich’s); East Indies.— 
This species and C. pnxcox have been called “ The 
Crocuses of India,” from the resemblance they bear to J 
that species of plant in their bulbs and place of growth. 
Mr. Gibson, late collector to the Duke of Devonshire, 
when ho was in India, found them growing amongst the 
grass on hill sides, just in the manner that the crocus 
grows in its native wilds. It has also been found on 
rocks, and on the lower branches of trees in moist woods. 
The sepals and petals are a beautiful deep rose colour; 
the lip is the same, with a dash of white in the centre, 
and finely spotted with a darker colour. It was imported 
largely at the same time as C. maculata, which circum¬ 
stance has considerably reduced the price. It blooms in 
November and December. The flowers spring from the 
base of the pseudo-bulbs formed the previous season, 
generally singly, but sometimes in pairs. 11 is a very 
handsome species, and very desirable. 31s. 6d. 
Culture. —To cultivate this genus successfully, it should 
be divided into two sections :—The first to consist of C. 
barbata, cristata, Cummingii, elata, fidiginosa, ocellata, 
speciosa, and some other new species from Borneo not 
yet bloomed in this country. The second section will be 
C. Gardneriana, maculata, prcecox, and Wattichiana. 
The compost for the first section should be the same 
as that recommended for the genus Cirrhcea. The season 
for potting is when they begin to grow, which generally 
happens about February. Some of the species have 
long rliizomas (creeping stems), and would soon run over 
the edges of the pot. A good method to keep them at 
