Nov.-DeEc., 1920. | THE ORCHID REVIFIW. 175 
have kept it alive during the troublesome times we have passed through. 
Its usefulness cannot be questioned, and we have only to look through the 
series of volumes to read the history of Orchid Cultivation from the time of 
its inception. Especially is this so in the enormous number of hybrids 
which have been recorded in its pages, and Iam sure that all readers will 
join me in wishing our Editor many years of health and the necessary 
leisure tocontinue under more congenial conditions the good work which he 
has carried on for so long. May the cult grow beyond our greatest anticip- 
ations, and may the coming year bring. us everlasting peace, and the 
promise of better times in the near future. 
EPIDENDRUM ENpDRESII.—I was much interested to see the note and 
figure of Epidendrum Endresii at page 145. The species is said to be 
fairly common in the region of La Palma, north of San José, at 5,000 to 
6,000 elevation, and on the Cerro Zurqui, an adjacent range of mountains 
to the westward of La Palma, which is the depression between Irazi and 
the massif of Barba. I have not collected it Here myself, but I believe the 
information is correct. The plants I have in cultivation in Costa Rica were 
given me in San José, and stated to have come from La Palma. I remember 
the late Prof. Paul Biolley bringing some from the Candelaria range, south 
of San José. I have never seen the purple form as described; my 
specimens have all a blue-violet stain. There is a very closely allied form 
on the southern slopes of Irazu, at 7,000 to 8,000 feet elevation, with the 
leaves closer together on the stems, the leaf sheaths more thickly verrucose, 
and the flower with a brown stain on the column and base of the lip. This 
I have found myself, and brought a plant home, but it unfortunately died. 
C. H. LANKESTER. 
eae Pee 
OrcHIDS OF THE BAHAMAS.—In a work entitled ‘“‘ The Bahama Flora,” 
Doctors Britton and Millspaugh enumerate 36 species of Orchids, belonging 
to 22 genera. The latter, however, are increased by breaking up the old 
genus Epidendrum into six. Sixteen of the genera are monotypic, and 
Encyclia heads the list with eight species. Of three species of Oncidium 
two are new. The flora of the Bahama Archipelago is most allied to that of 
the adjacent coasts of Cuba and Florida. 
case. 
REICHENBACH ON HIMSELF.—‘“‘ Systematic Botany becomes absolutely 
inaccessible if in our days it is regarded sufficient to scribble some lines 
about a thing, which may be applied to many or no species at once.”"— 
Gard. Chron., 1880, i. p. 648. He might well have added: ‘“ And then lock 
up the materials for a quarter of a century.” 
