THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
[October, 192 r 
order to protect the plants from cold, for, it should be stated, they travelled! 
via Siberia during the early part of the year. At each end of the box an 
aperture was made for providing ventilation, this being covered by vwire- 
gauxe, and the chamber filled with cotton wool in order to moderate any 
sudden inflow of cold air. It will be observed that the foliage was entirely 
free of any packing, and on arrival was found to be perfect, not a leaf had! 
changed its colour. The pots were securely fastened, and the ball of 
compost in no way disturbed, hence all the roots remained unbroken, and in 
a living state. 
Gomesa scandens.— The specific name of this plant is given in allusion 
to the elongated stem and climbing habit. The pseudobulbs are distant 
from each other from two to four inches, the intervening portion being 
clothed with imbricating lanceolate dictichous bracts. The leaves are 
oblong, from two to four inches long, and the racemes arching, about six 
inches long, and carrying numerous light green flowers. 
Bulbophyllum virescens.— This remarkable Javan species was- 
originally described about twenty-one years ago, and first came under 
public notice when flowered by the late Sir Fredk. Wigan, Bart., who* 
exhibited it at the Royal Horticultural Society, July, 1906, when a First- 
class Certificate was awarded, a high honour for a Bulbophyllum. Little 
has been heard of it since then, but the same plant, or a propagated portion,, 
having benefited from the warm and unusually sunny summer, has again 
produced a fine umbel of six flowers, a similar number to the spike produced 
at the time of being certificated. This plant has been cultivated by Messrs. 
Charlesworth & Co., and was exhibited by them at the Royal Horticultural. 
Society on September 6th. 
Bollea Lalindei.— The discovery of this species is due to Mr. Lalinde,. 
the Orchidophilist architect of Medellin in New Granada, who for so many 
years assisted the New Granadan travellers and Orchid destroyers without 
being the least acknowledged in Europe. Finally, the gentleman appears 
to have settled his mind by sending himself living Orchids to Europe, and 
he began to do so assisted by his young Belgian friend, M. Patin. Thus- 
wrote Reichenbach in the Gardeners' Chronicle of 1874. The flowers were 
described as beautiful bright violet, the tip of the upper sepal green, and the 
inferior halves of the lateral ones brownish purple, the lip deep orange, and 
the column deep purplish. B. Patini, described at the same time, and from- 
the same source, is evidently a variety of it. What an attraction a well- 
flowered plant would be to-day, for but few amateurs have seen it, and still 
fewer have grown it. 
