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avery pretty foliaged plant, lately introduced, as it would appear, from 
Dutch India. It was exhibited at Amsterdam in April, 1877, by Messrs. 
Groenewegen, in beautiful condition. Then it appeared with Messrs. 
Makoy, Veitch, Bull (I name in order as I received specimens).” 
Fortunately, Mr. J. Day made a painting (Orch. Draw., xxvii. t. 7). The 
date was August I, 1880, and it is recorded as received from Mr. Bull, who 
imported it from Java or some other Malayan Island. With this drawing 
the Kew plant is identical. It is suspected to have come from some locality 
in the Malay Peninsula. Mr. Ridley (F/. Mal. Penins., i. p. 13) records it 
from the Penang Rifle Range (Curtis), also from Pegu and Siam. The 
Pegu plant, however, belongs to the allied M. Scottii, Hook. f. (Bot. Mag., 
t. 7268), which Mr. Ridley makes synonymous. There is also a record of M. 
calophylla as collected at Penokok, Kinabalu, at 3000 feet altitude, by Dr. 
Haviland (Journ. Linn. Soc., xxxi. p. 263), but this we have not seen, a 
remark which also applies to the Siam plant. Reichenbach gave no locality. 
The leaves of M. calophylla are sienna brown, witha broad silver grey band 
near the margin, on which are numerous brown dots. The lip of the 
flowers is light green, with a bidentate apex and a pair of long basal auricles. 
A second species which came with the above has purple leaves, but its 
identity is uncertain until it blooms.—R.A.R. 
aes; 
LEFT Panama City, accompanied by my friend, Mr. A. A. Hunter, of 
Balboa, on the Cattle Ship ‘‘ David,” for the port of Pedrigal—the 
entreport of David, capital of the Province (State) of Chiriqui, Panama, the 
object being to collect Orchids. We were compelled to go by cattle ship, 
because the passenger ship on this run was sold to the French Government 
during the war. It was used by them for a transport, and has not yet been 
replaced by another. After 24 days of uncomfortable travel, we arrived at 
Pedrigal, aud from there we went by rail over a narrow guage railroad— 
which has deteriorated almost out of existence for want of business during 
the war, and has not yet been repaired—to Boquette, at 3,500 feet elevation. 
This road is built on a grade of a little over 100 feet to the mile, and our 
travel was not very rapid. An amusing incident occurred on this trip. At 
abaut 3000 feet elevation, while passing over the plains, we saw Hexisia 
bidentata in full flower everywhere on scrub trees out in the full sun. A 
magnificent bunch evoked my unbounded admiration, and my friend, Mr. 
Hunter, jumped from the train, ran out to the tree, got the bunch, and 
_ Caught up with the train again. This will give you some idea of our speed. 
Arriving at Boquette, we took horses and went to Lino (elevation 4000 
Be NOTES ON A TRIP TO CHIRIQUI. 
