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pass away through the compost and drainage very freely, as stagnant water is in 
the highest degree injurious. 
It flowers during the dull months of October and November, and remains a 
long time in perfection. The flowers, which are borne in the axils of the leaves, 
measure about three inches in diameter. The sepals and petals are fleshy, 
concave, roundish-oblong, and of a pale waxy primrose-yellow. The lip is bright 
yellow, with the radiating lines of the great fleshy disc margined with brown. 
It is curious how comparatively unknown are many of the Pescatoreas, and 
how little has come to light about them during recent years. In 1878 REICHEN- 
BACH wrote. “ There is no end of new Pescatoreas and Bolleas, though it is 
perhaps not so astonishing as it may appear. The majority of these plants are 
collected by the native collectors out of flower, one as like the other as one egg 
to another; hence all are believed to be the same as those collected in the 
flowering state. There are even now in my possession sketches made on the 
western side of tropical south America which promise new species and very 
elegant ones. ” Andinthe following year he added : — “ There is scarcely a group 
of Orchids that has offered such a quantity of surprises as Pescatoreas and 
Bolleas. The traveller is lucky to detect one, provided he condescends to invade 
the woods, or to obtain one by the feons, should he prefer to smoke at home and 
send the brown fellows into the woods. Their orders are to collect, and all 
similar kinds are brought, and believed to be the same. ” Very few species 
have since been described, and many of the earlier ones are chiefly known by 
the descriptions, for in many cases the unique specimens are locked up in the 
Reichenbachian Herbarium at Vienna. It is much to be hoped that further 
attention will be paid to this interesting group, as apart from their interest to the 
botanist there are many of them whose beauty would secure them a place in 
many collections, provided only their cultivation were better understood. 
R. A. Ro tre. 
