. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. COELIA. 201 Co ELI A, Liniley. (Ti'ibc Epidcndreao, xubti-ihc Ericae.) A small genus of epiphytes, the bases of whose stems eventually thicken into pseudobulbs. They have narrow elongate plicately venose leaves, and from the base of the bulbs dense racemes of moderate-sized flowers on short erect scapes ascend above the foliage. The four or five known species are natives of the West Indies, Central America, and Mexico. CttZto-e.—These plants do best in pots
. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. COELIA. 201 Co ELI A, Liniley. (Ti'ibc Epidcndreao, xubti-ihc Ericae.) A small genus of epiphytes, the bases of whose stems eventually thicken into pseudobulbs. They have narrow elongate plicately venose leaves, and from the base of the bulbs dense racemes of moderate-sized flowers on short erect scapes ascend above the foliage. The four or five known species are natives of the West Indies, Central America, and Mexico. CttZto-e.—These plants do best in pots, in a compost of peat and moss, with a little charcoal added, and should be grown in the Cattleya house. C. BELLA, Rchh. /.—A very pretty species, furnished ivith roundish-ovate compressed pseu- dobulbs, three or four ensiform nervose leaves, and short upright radical scapes bearing from four to seven funnel-shaped fragrant fleshy flowers, of which the sepals and petals are creamy white, broadly tipped with rich magenta, and the lip is yellow, with a rather prominent front lobe. It flowers during the autumn months.—Guatemala. Fia.~Lcm. Jard. J^/., iii. t. ; Orchid Album, ii. t. 51 ; But. t. 6628. Syn.—Jiifretiaria bdla ; Botli- riocMlns COELIA BELLA. C. MACROSTACHYA, Lindley.—An erect-growing distinct species, with rather large and nearly globose pale green glabrous pseudobulbs, which arc invested at the base with coarse brown scaly envelopes, and bear at the top about three large lanceolate membranous plicate leaves a foot or more in length, sheathing at the base. From the base of the pseudobulbs arises the flower scape, which is about a span high, clothed with large ovate involute brownish scales, and surmounted by a cylindrical raceme, nine or ten inches long, crowded with rather small bright rosy-red flowers in the axils of long narrow brownish bracts. The concave fleshy sepals are oblong acute, corrugated externally, deep rosy-red, the oblong
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