*44 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [November, 1921. 
results in success, it can hardly be beneficial to the health of the plant,, 
for Cypripediums are moisture-loving plants, and are not provided 
with any special organs in the way of bulbs for storing water during a 
dry period. 
DENDROBIUM PHAL/ENOPSIS. 
W HEN Fitzgerald described this beautiful species in 1880, he said it i& 
easily distinguished from D. bigibbum by the absence of the 
recurving of tlm segments, and that there are no white glands on the disc of 
the labellum. From D. superbiens it is distinguished by the broadness of 
the parts of the perianth, and by the sepals not being undulate, as well as 
by the absence of ridges or plates on the labellum. The finest of the 
Australian Dendrobes, Fitzgerald called it Phalsenopsis, from the likeness of 
the flowers to moths, and also to those of the genus Phalsenopsis. The 
specimen described flowered in the collection of Captain Broomfield, of 
Balmain, Australia, and was collected near ^ooktown, in Northern 
Queensland. 
About the year 1891, this species became well-known in Europe, for 
Messrs. Sanders obtained a splendid importation of the variety known as 
D. Phalaenopsis Schroderianum, which comes from the locality of New 
Guinea. Its habit is larger, and the flowers are more richly coloured, yet 
variable. Varieties have been flowered with white sepals and petals, and 
the lip tinged with pink, as well as one having theTip striped, and others 
pure-white in all the segments. 
Our illustration shows a group of this beautiful Dendrobium flowering 
profusely in the collection of the late O. O. Wrigley, Esq., at Bridge Hall, 
Bury. The plants had been cultivated there for about twelve years, and 
yielded numerous drooping spikes of bloom each autumn. A remarkable 
exhibit of this species, and one which will long be remembered, was that 
staged at the Royal Horticultural Society on November 7th, 1911, by 
G. F. Moore, Esq., of Burton-on-the-Water. It comprised about 80 
splendidly grown plants, most of which had been in the collection for 
eighteen years. A Silver Lindley Medal was awarded. 
Cirrhopetalum miniatum. At the R.H.S. Meeting, Sept. 27th, a 
pietty little Cirrhopetalum with vermilion-coloured flowers was exhibited 
by Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart. It was originally introduced from Annam 
along with Dendrobium Bronckartii by Messrs. Sanders, and subsequently 
M. Valcke, a collector for Mr. T. Pauwels, Meirelbeke, Belgium, stated that 
he had also seen the species growing at Haut Laos, between Siam and 
Cochin China. 
