THE ORCHID REVIEW. [Nc 
*» 1921. 
flower. Farther on, the yellow Platanthera Gibbsiae, Sigmatochilus 
kinabaluensis, Coelogyne papillosa and C. exalata were discovered. 
For the last stage of the ascent the party consisted of seventeen, only 
those who volunteered being taken. Sheltered low forest was passed 
through, and an Eria growing in large colonies was found. *At the summit, 
the party stepped out of the dwarf forest on to the granite core. In the 
■cracks of the granite, a little light yellow Orchid that proved to be 
Dendrochilum stachyodes, was found, the altitude being 12,000 feet. 
No less than 48 species of Orchids were collected by Miss Gibbs, of 
which twenty proved to be new, including one new genus. In working 
them up two others collected on Mt. Kinabalu by Haviland were found, and 
as these had been named by Dr. Kranzlin, but not described, they are 
included in the present paper, which thus deals with fifty species, of which 
22 are described for the first time. Of these, no less than 42 were found 
cn Mt. Kinabalu, and no fewer than 23 are not yet known from elsewhere, 
and five others are only known from Borneo. The most interesting is 
without doubt Sigmatochilus; kinabaluensis, for which Mr. R. A. Rolfe 
constituted a new genus. It is a very curious plant of the Coelogyne 
group, the lip being free from the column, and strongly sigmatoid in shape, 
the latter character being commemorated in the generic name. It is well 
figured in plate 3. Terrestrial in habit, and with white flowers. 
Odoxtioda SanderOrthii.— The specific name of this novelty is 
derived from that of its parents, Oda. Sanderae and Oda. Charlesworthii. 
It is of reddish scarlet colour throughout, excepting the golden crest on the 
labellum and the under part of the column. Raised in the collection of 
Richard G. Thwaites, Esq., Streatham Hill. 
Dendrobium Aphrodite and D. nodatum.— Rarely has the same 
species been differently named within the space of a few hours. 
Reichenbach’s name Aphrodite with description appeared August 1st, 1862, 
and Lindley’s name nodatum was published 24 hours later, and for that 
reason becomes a synonym of the former. This plant was one of the 
numerous discoveries of the Rev. C. Parish, in the Moulmein district of 
British Burmah, and was introduced by Messrs. Low & Co. in 1862. It is 
a late-summer flowering species and now extremely scarce in cultivation, 
hence the fine plant cultivated by Messrs. Armstrong & Brown possesses 
more than an ordinary Dendrobium interest. The sepals and petals are 
.cream coloured; the lip saffron-yellow, and with two small maroon- 
purple blotches at the base; the anther cap purple : and the spur short 
.and obtuse. 
