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is in a strong healthy state, it will have a number of spikes, with 
two to three flowers on a spike. The pseudo bulbs are round, 
and many-angled, very thick at the base, and tapering towards 
the top. The leaves are two on each pseudo bulb ; they are 
lance-shaped, pointed, and of a pale-green colour. It is readily 
known from the other species by its much shorter bulb, and 
broader and shortened leaves. The flower spikes are pendent, 
as in all the species. 
Coryantlies speciosus .—This is a very pretty and distinct 
species. The flowers are very much smaller than the pre¬ 
ceding species, and of a different colour, they being all of one 
dingy yellow. The sepals and petals are thrown back much in 
the same manner as the other ; but the pseudo bulbs are very 
much longer than that of Macrantha, and taper much more: the 
leaves are two to each pseudo bulb, long and narrow, and very 
much pointed ; the flowers are three to four on a spike; the 
spikes come out from the base of the pseudo bulb, and are 
pendent, which gives the plant a handsome appearance when in 
flower. 
Coryanthes maculata are elegant species. The whole flower is 
spotted in the same manner as that of the first species. The 
flowers are very much like those of Macrantha, but much smaller, 
and it has the pseudo bulbs and leaves of Speciosus ; they are not 
easily distinguished from one another when they are not in flower. 
There is another species very like this, having the habit of this 
species, but differing very much in the marking of the flowers ; it 
is a species not yet named, but it is a beautiful species. These 
are all the species belonging to this genus which at present are 
known. 
It will be necessary to say something about shading, as the 
season is now fast advancing. The only thing which I should 
recommend for shading is that of coarse canvass, being much 
better than any thing else that I know of: it admits the light 
much better than any thing else, and at the same time breaks the' 
rays of the sun. I should not, as is the custom, take off the canvass 
at night, as taking off the canvass at four o’clock in the afternoon 
I should generally say, admits too great a flood of light at that late 
period in the afternoon. In their native country, it is well known, 
the day is only about twelve hours long ; while in this country, in 
the summer, it is much longer, and consequently, I should say, it 
