sphagnum and peat fibre, chopped fine and pressed firmly 
about the roots; the individual pots are then buried in 
the sphagnum in the pans. The plants are watered 
overhead every day in the summer and are never allowed 
to approach a condition of dryness in winter. They 
flower only rarely, a fortunate circumstance, since after 
flowering the plant either dies outright or is so much 
weakened that it eventually succumbs. Unless stem 
offsets have been developed, flowering therefore almost 
inevitably results in the loss of the plant, for it is found 
that removal of a flower-spike as soon as it shows itself 
is ineffectual as a means of saving the plant. This habit 
of being practically monocarpic, at all events in culti- 
vation, is unfortunately shared by many terrestrial 
orchids. The genera Lissochilus, Eulophia, Microstylis, 
Satyrium, Disa all contain species which behave in this 
way. Though the plants of this particular group are 
all members of the subtribe Spirantheae, to which the 
genus Anoectochilus belongs, they do not all belong to 
that genus, and until flowers are produced it is sometimes 
impossible to suggest their true natural position. The 
member of the group now figured has exemplified this 
difficulty. This species was originally introduced to 
cultivation by Mr. L. Forget, who had met with it in 
some unspecified locality in the Sunda Archipelgo, while 
collecting on behalf of Messrs. Sander and Sons, St. 
Albans. It was, as usual, tentatively referred in the 
first instance to Anoectochilus, and was described by 
Dr. Kraenzlin in 1895 as A. Sanderianus. A plant flowered 
at St. Albans in 1896, and the flower-spike, sent to Kew 
for examination, made it possible to ascertain that the 
species is really a Macodes. There are other three species 
of the same genus now in cultivation and all three are, 
like M. Sanderiana, natives of Malaya. One of the three 
is the original M. Petola, Lindl., originally placed by 
Blume in Neottia, which is a native of Java; another is 
M. javanica, Hook. f., figured at t. 7037 of this work, 
which is also a native of that island; the precise locality 
of the third species, M. Rollissonii, Rolfe, is not known. 
From all three M. Sanderiana is readily distinguished 
because of the much greater width of the brightly 
coloured lines of the venation. It comes even nearer as 
