JAN.-FEB., 1920.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. It 
Ecce] ORCHIDS IN COSTA RICA. Eee 
OME additional dried flowers of Costa Rican Orchids have been sént by 
Mr. C. H. Lankester, Agua Caliente, Costa Rica, one of which is the 
subject ofa special note. Mr. Lankester recently spent a week near the 
junction of the Parismena and Reventazon rivers, and he remarks that 
although one cannot explore the epiphytal contents of the woodland unless 
recent felling has occured, there is nearly always a key to what the district 
contains from fallen trees or branches, and the river banks, invariably lined 
by Pithecolobium cognatum, are an index to what occurs locally. Further, 
many species from the higher zones follow down the rivers. Remarkably few 
Orchids occur in the high forests of the coastal region on the Atlantic slope, 
and the only ones encountered during this trip were Trigonidium, Aspasia, 
one plant of Cattleya Deckeri, and a Maxillaria, said to be a common 
coastal species, of which a dried flower, and a reduced pen and ink sketch 
are sent. It is nearly allied to M. setigera, and from a search among 
descriptions of Costa Rican species not represented at Kew, we believe it to 
be :— 
MAXILLARIA ENpDRESII, Rchb. f. (Gard. Chron., 1886, i. p. 680).—The 
author remarks: ‘‘ This flowered in 1870, in the Hamburg Botanic Garden, 
having been sent alive with Sievkingia by the late Mr. Endres, to whose 
memory it is now dedicated. I made a sketch in colours, but never 
published it. Now it has re-appeared, also from Costa Rica, in the 
establishment of Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., whence it has been kindly sent 
me by Mr. Edward Low. It belongs to the group of Maxillaria setigera, 
Lindl.” Then follows a description, which agrees so closely with the materials 
Sent that, until a second species of the group is found in Costa Rica, it may be 
regarded as representing the same species. The flower sent has narrow 
sepals and petals, about two inches long, which are described as wax yellow 
in colour, paler at the base, and the lip white at the edges, with a broad, 
cuneiform, light cadmium blotch in the centre of the front lobe, and the side 
lobes, also the front of the column, stained with maroon. 
Mr. Lankester has recently made an importation of Cattleya Trianz, C. 
Warscewiczii (gigas), and Odontoglossum crispum from a Colombian 
locality, but they were solong em route that none of the Odontoglossums 
survived the trip. The others were fair, but it was painful to have to throw 
away dozens of fine plants that were ruined by their long stay in the ports. 
The cases took two months to get from Honda to Port Limon. 
He kindly promises a few notes to supplement a recent article on Orchids 
at home, which will be greatly appreciated. R.A.R. 
