habit of growth resembles the Aérides, the stem being simple, producing its rough 
greyish roots freely from the stem. The leaves are close set, distichous, leathery, 
dark green, bilobed at the apex, and keeled. The peduncles are axillary, and 
bear from one to four of their large and wonderful flowers, which are of a shining 
ivory-white, about twelve inches in diameter. These are furnished with a long 
spur twelve to eighteen inches in length, hanging downwards from the flower. It 
produces its flowers in November, December and January, and these last about 
three weeks in perfection if kept from the damp. 
This plant should be grown in a pot in sphagnum moss, and have ample 
drainage. It should be placed in the East India house, and receive an abundant 
supply of water during the growing season. 
Our plate was taken from a specimen which flowered in the collection of 
Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart,, Dorking, and we are indebted to this gentleman for 
the opportunity of figuring it. 2 
(Review.—Concluded from Plate 517). 
identifying it with such scant assistance we fail to see. The Captain would have 
been well advised had he sought the assistance of a competent botanist, were it 
only to avoid such glaring errors as giving specific names like alba, elegans, oF 
barbata a capital initial, which abound throughout the book. Messrs. Veitch will, 
we imagine, be somewhat startled to find it stated their work is out of print. 
After reading the rather disparaging remarks on Williams’ Manual we are not a little 
astonished to find that, roughly speaking, about 75 or 80 per cent. of the descriptions 
are literally copied from that work, besides notes as to cultivation, which we fear, 
however, will not be of great value to the class of readers for whom this book 
has ostensibly been compiled, in view of the fact that the cultural directions are 
based on experience in cultivation under glass The absence of any indication at 
the top of the pages as to which genus is being treated of is another serious 
blemish, as it is most annoying to have to turn back page after page sometimes 
before we can be sure what we have before us. We regret having to somewhat 
severely criticise this work, which, had a little more care and ability been expended 
on it, would have formed an extremely useful handbook for the particular class of 
people to whom it appeals. With the exceptions mentioned above, it appears to 
have been revised carefully enough, and the printing redounds greatly to the credit 
of the Hanthawaddy Press, from which it is issued. Should ever a second edition 
he required, we trust some of our hints will bear fruit in the directions indicated. 
