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it is an Indian species, being a native of Nepal, it seems 
to bloom freely in an ordinary greenhouse temperature. 
C. caricinum —known also as C. Pearcii —is a curious 
Orchid from Peru, having a grassy appearance, with 
long creeping rhizomes totally different from any other 
species. It produces from four to seven flowers of a 
pale green color; the petals and sepals are margined 
with white, the ends blotched with brown. It does well 
in a coolhouse. 
of Bolivia. C. caudatum roseum is similar to the pre¬ 
ceding in habit of growth, but differs in color, the flow¬ 
ers being dark-rose mixed with yellow and green. 
C. venusturn is a handsome coolhouse species. The 
leaves are light-green, curiously mottled with a darker 
color; flowers, green shaded to white, and last a 
long time after cutting. Native of Nepal. These plants 
are, almost without exception, terrestrial in habit, 
and grow in a mixture of peat, sphagnum and sand. 
Cypripedium Lawrenceanum. 
C. caudatum is a most remarkable Orchid of singular 
beauty. It is an evergreen, grown from a foot to 
eighteen inches high. The foliage is light green, the 
flower scapes being produced after the growth is com¬ 
plete. The petals and sepals are yellowish marked 
with brown ; the long, tail-like petaxs are the strangest 
part of the flower, often reaching the length of thirty 
inches, hanging like narrow ribbons, deepening in color 
toward the end ; the lip is yellow brown. It is a native 
They are very useful as cut-flowers owing to their last¬ 
ing qualities, while they always attract by their oddity 
of form and coloring. In addition to the various spe¬ 
cies, Orchid culturists have produced some very fine 
hybrids, in many cases excelling the parent plant. 
The Epidendrums, as noticed in a former paper, form 
a large family of epiphytal Orchids, but many of them 
are scarcely worth cultivating, except for botanical 
purposes. However, the universal law of compensa- 
