The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Caelia

Of this genus there are four or five species, natives of the West Indies, Central America, and Mexico. To those described on p. 356, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

C. bella (beautiful). fl. three or four, erect, 2in. long; perianth yellowish-white, with rose-purple tips to the segments, and having an orange mid-lobe to the lip, tubular below, funnel-shaped above; scape 2in. to 4in. long, clothed with brown sheaths. Autumn to December. l. several, 6in. to 10in. long, elongate-ensiform, acuminate. Pseudo-bulbs 1 1/2in. to 2in. long, globose or ovoid. Ile St. Catherine, 1882. (B. M. 6628; W. O. A. ii. 51.) SYN. Bifrenaria bella (L. J. F. iii. 325).

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