rl ee eae) RE VEE W 
Vou, XXX.] FEBRUARY, 1922. [No. 344. 
NOTES: 
MAXILLARIA ELEGANTULA.—This attractive species, allied to M. grandi- 
flora, has the sepals and petals white at the base, and deep yellow at the 
apex, spotted with dark purple-brown; the lip yellow, margined with purple 
at the base. The exterior area of the sepals is stained with brown-purple. 
It has recently been in flower with Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., the scapes: 
exceeding nine inches in height. 
Dr. R. S. RoGErRs.—We learn with considerable pleasure that Lieut.- 
Col. R. S. Rogers, M.A., M.D., an acknowledged authority on Australian 
Orchidology, has been elected President of the Royal Society of South 
Australia. At the recent annual meeting of this Society, Dr. Rogers read a 
paper entitled, “‘ Notes on the Pollinary Mechanism of Phajus, and the’ 
Gynostemium in the genus Diuris.” Several of his scientific papers con- 
cerning Orchids have been published in the Society’s Transactions, and: 
**Some South Australian Orchids,” written in popular mh and well: 
oo is now in its second edition. 
MONOPODIAL AND SYMPODIAL ORCHIDS.—The growth of Orchids may 
be classified in two important divisions. The one, known as the Mono- 
podial, includes those plants which continue to grow in an upward direction, 
as seen in the genera Vanda, Aerides, and Angrecum; the other, known as 
the Sympodial, embraces a larger number of plants, which commence a new 
growth annually from the base of the previous one, as witnessed in Odonto- 
glossum, Cattleya, and Cypripedium. The genus Cymbidium, however, 
appears to hold a somewhat intermediate position, and occasionally shows 
a tendency to pass from the sympodial habit of growth to the monopodial 
type. Evidence of this has occurred in the Cymbidium house of Messrs. 
J. & A. McBean, who have recently raised numerous hybrids in the genus. 
A plant of C. Schlegelii (insigne Sanderi X Wiganianum) has completed an 
extended bulb with seven leaves on one side of it and eight on the other,. 
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