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This error was not so strange as its seems, for the Assamese variety has pseudo-bulbs much less sturdy than those we are used to see, and they are quite pendulous. It was rather a lively business collecting orchids in Burmah before the annexation.
C. Acklandiæ is found at Bahia, where it grows side by side with C. amethystoglossa, also a charming species, very tall, leafless to the tip of its pseudo-bulbs. Thus the dwarf beneath is seen in all its beauty.
Its snakey pseudo-bulbs measure nine feet, and the old flower spikes stood eighteen feet high. It will be found in the Victoria Regia house, growing strongly. Not a few orchids are "lost" have been described that is, and named, even linger in some great collection, but, bearing no history, cannot now be found.
It measures the solid bulk of it, leaves not counted as nearly as possible five feet in height and four thick one plant, observe, pulsating through its thousand limbs from one heart; at least, I mark no spot where the circulation has been checked by accident or disease, and the pseudo-bulbs beyond have been obliged to start an independent existence.
A strong plant in perfect health, six pseudo-bulbs with leaves, and three without. Two black leads which I am advised can be separated off at the proper time. Now, what bids for the 'Odontoglossum Pavo. Ah! I wonder who will have the honour of becoming the owner of this perfect, this unmatched production of Nature. Thank you, sir three hundred. Four. Five. Six. Seven in three places. Eight. Nine.
At the end of that time a large proportion of those first gathered will certainly be doomed Vandas have no pseudo-bulbs to sustain their strength. Steamers run from Manilla to Singapore every fortnight.
It comes from Honduras, where the children use its great hollow pseudo-bulbs as trumpets whence the name. At their base is a hole a touch-hole, as we may say, the utility of which defies our botanists. Had Mr. Belt travelled in those parts, he might have discovered the secret, as in the similar case of the Bullthorn, one of the Gummiferæ.
The poor thing tells me that some cruel person bought it five years ago an imported piece, with two pseudo-bulbs. They still remain, towering like columns of old-world glory above an area of shapeless ruin. To speak in mere prose though really the conceit is not extravagant these fine bulbs, grown in their native land, of course, measure eight inches high by three-quarters of an inch diameter.
It clings to the very tip of a slender palm, in swamps which the Indians themselves regard with dread as the chosen home of fever and mosquitoes. It was discovered by Sir Robert Schomburgk, who compared the flower to a foxglove, referring especially, perhaps, to the graceful bend of its long pseudo-bulbs, which is almost lost under cultivation.
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