THE: ORCHID REVIEW. 
IJULY, 
Disa Telipogonis.— This is an extremely interesting and rare species, 
-quite unlike any other species of South African Orchid known to me. 
Only three collections are known; ! the first, by Berg, a Cape Town apothe¬ 
cary and collector, in 1816; the second, by Dr. R. Schlechter in 1896 ; the 
third, by Miss H. M. L. Kensit in 1904. It was long one of the most 
-eagerly sought for of Orchids in South Africa, being quite unknown save for 
, Reichenbach’s description, drawn solely from dried specimens. Great, 
therefore, was our pleasure when excellent, living specimens were found 
sufficiently near to us so that a drawing'could at once be made from the life. 
Miss Kensit re-discovered the plant during a violent rain-storm on the 
summit of Table Mountain. This small Orchid had been practically lost 
. for seventy years, and I hope that its modest size and the quiet colour of 
its flowers may now save it. from the extinction by ruthless flower- 
gatherers which has overtaken so many other flowers.— H. Bolus, in 
•Orchids of South Africa, 1911. 
Dendrobium suavissimum.— Miss Julia A. Stuckey, of Unley Park, 
.South Australia, asks “ Why is this Dendrobe called ‘suavissimum,’ meaning 
sweetest, when it has almost no scent ? A species with such a name should 
. always have a little perfume. However, it is very charming.” This species 
. is always described as being sweet-scented, and we believe it is the general 
-experience of European cultivators to find it so. It seems unlikely that the 
.removal from its native country, Burmah, to South Australia would deprive 
it of this pleasing attraction. Have any of our readers noticed a similar 
The Genus Odontoglossum. —This popular genus, containing over 
^eighty species, extends from South Mexico along the Andes as far 
as Peru and Bolivia. It is nearly allied to Oncidium, from which, 
states Dr. Lindley, “It is chiefly distinguished by its column being 
long, and usually narrow at the base, or at all events not tumid there, 
....and by the base of the lip being always parallel with the face of the 
column. No other difference has yet been observed, but it may be 
.added that the lateral sepals are very rarely united. The two genera 
unite by Od. naevium, which is very like On. phymatochilum, and by 
Od. costatum and its allies, which run into the Oncidia michrochila. 
The crest is extremely variable in its composition, but it usually 
--consists of a pair of parallel lamellae, between which arise various 
tumours and plates, the centre one of which always really occupies 
the centre of the lip. In some instances, especially among the 
Trymenia, little or no trace is discoverable of that mode of 
.arrangement,” 
