July, 19*1.] 
THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
NEW ORCHIDS. 
HE following New Orchids, Decades xlviii-xlix, described by Mr. Rolfe, 
are published in the Kew Bulletin, 1921, No. 2. With a single 
exception they were Collected by Sir Everard F. im Thurn, K.C.M.G., when 
■Governor of Fiji, and High Commissioner of the Western Pacific. The 
majority are natives of the Fiji group, and chiefly of the Island of Viti Levu, 
but the collection contains plants obtained in the New Hebrides and 
Solomon Islands. 
Microstylis IicTHtnum.—Foot of Mt. Victoria. Flowers vanilla- 
scented. 
Microstylis radicicola. —Nandarivatu, on mossy tree roots above 
ground in shady forest. This somewhat resembles M. platychila Reichb. f. 
in habit, but the stems are shorter and more swollen at the base, and there 
is a difference in the structure of the flowers. 
Microstylis latisepala.— Navai. A much larger plant than M. 
Schlechteri, Rolfe, but judging from the description, approaching it in 
iloral structure. The leaf of M. latisepala is said to be purplish, and the 
flower purple. 
Microstylis Everardii. —Navai. A rather small, lax-flowered species. 
Microstylis longifolia. —Common everywhere in Fiji in the forks of 
the Ivi trees. A fruiting specimen collected by Seemann at Motariki is 
.quite similar in habit, but has longer scapes and leaves, and may be 
different. Reichenbach labelled it “ Liparis non-determinable,” but it has 
the short broad column of Microstylis. 
Liparis vitiensis.— Vesari Swamp, in forest by side of Suva Navua 
Road. 
Dendrobium Everardii. —Nandrau. Closely resembling the Samoan 
ID. dactylodes, but differing markedly in the broad and far shorter floral 
segments. Flowers yellow. 
Dendrobium malaitense. — Solomon Islands. Flowers white, 
•ephemeral and very easily detatched. 
Dendrobium calaniforme. —Fiji. New Hebrides. Allied to the 
Tahitian D. crispatum, Swartz, with which it has been confused, but readily 
distinguished by its much longer leaves and the flowers double the size. 
Horne remarks: “ Common at some places on trees overhanging the sea and 
salt water marshes. Flowers yellow.” 
Dendrobium vitiense. —Nandrau, in mounts Viti Levu. This species 
has much the general habit of D. agrostophyllum, F. Muell, to which it is 
.apparently allied, but has far smaller flowers. The latter are described as 
purple. 
