134 ABOUT ORCHIDS. 
culturists. Itis certainly odd that the only “ cool” 
Aerides—the only one found, I believe, outside of 
India and the Eastern Tropics—also belongs to 
Japan, and a cool Dendrobe, A. arcuatum, is 
found in the Transvaal; and I have reason 
to hope that another or more will turn up when 
South Africa is thoroughly searched. A_ pink 
Angrecum, very rarely seen, dwells somewhere on 
the West Coast ; the only species, so far as I know, 
which is not white. It bears the name of M. Du 
Chaillu, who found it—he has forgotten where, 
unhappily. I took that famous traveller to St. 
Albans in the hope of quickening his recollection, 
and I fearI bored him afterwards with categorical 
inquiries. But all was vain. M. Du Chaillu can 
only recall that once on a time, when just starting 
for Europe, it occurred to him to run into the bush 
and strip the trees indiscriminately. Mr. Sander 
was prepared to send a man expressly for this 
Angrecum. The exquisite A. Sanderianum is a 
native of the Comorro Islands. No flower could 
be prettier than this, nor more deliciously scented 
—when scented it is! It grows in a climate 
which travellers describe as Paradise, and, in 
truth, it becomes such a scene. Those who 
behold young plants with graceful garlands of 
snowy bloom twelve to twenty inches long are 
