varieties in cultivation. No doubt many will 

 be surprised to learn the presence in lower 

 Florida of the vigorous epiphyte, Cyrtopo- 

 dium punctatum (plate 15), an orchid bear- 

 ing long sprays of large and beautifully 

 colored flowers and floral bracts, and suited 

 to cultivation, though almost unknown in 

 American collections. 



"^EW SPECIES. Twenty-one species 

 -^^ from the Philippines, new to science, 

 are described for the first time. These with 

 the enumei'ation and description of orchids 

 collected in the course of the botanical ex- 

 ploration of the islands, now being prosecuted 

 by government botanists, form an impor- 

 tant contribution to the flora of the Orient. 



F 



UTURE FASCICLES of the series in- 

 itiated by the present number will ap- 



pear at irregular intervals. 



