98 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [APRIL, 1922. 
SALE OF VALUABLE CATTLRYAS.—Messrs. Protheroe and Morris have 
been instructed by A. Hanmer, Esq., to dispose of his entire collection of 
valuable Cattleyas, comprising some 200 of the finest modern hybrids, 
together with a number of fine Cypripediums aad Odontoglossums of the 
best varieties. The plants will be sold by auction at The Coal Exchange, 
Market Place, Manchester, on Wednesday, April roth. - Messrs. Protheroe 
and Morris have also been instructed to sell on April 4th and following days 
the entire stock of Orchids of Mr. C. F. Waters, Balcombe, Sussex, and on 
May gth and roth the first portion of the collection of Orchids formed by the 
late Mr. Wm. Bolton, at Wilderspool, Warrington. Further particulars 
will be found in our advertisement pages, 
Opiruary.—]J. F. DuTHIE.—We regret to record the death, which took 
place at West Worthing on February 23rd, of Mr. John Firminger Duthie, 
F.L.S., aged 76, late Director of the Botanical Survey of Northern India, 
and author of Orchids of the North-Western Himalaya, published in 1906, as 
vol. ix., pt. ii., of “ Annals of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta.’’ In this: 
work, Duthie gave the number of species then known to occur within the 
limits of the Western Himalaya as 173. Of these 59 are epiphytes and 114 
terrestrial, the number of genera represented being 45. With regard to 
their flowering season, he stated that although there is no single month of 
the year during which one or more species may not be found in flower, there 
are, however, three distinct flowering periods, viz.:—(r) Before the rainy 
season, from Marchto June; (2) During the rainy season; (3) After the 
rainy season, from the middle of September and onwards. Cymbidium 
Mackinnoni, which is remarkable on account of its flowering in mid-winter 
at an elevation of about 5,000 feet, and within the region of heavy snowfall, 
is one of the species originally described by Duthie. His name will also be 
remembered by Liparis Duthiei and Herminium Duthiei. 
BRASSOCATTLELIA ‘GOVERI—A’ flower ‘of. this promising new hybrid 
comes from the collection of Richard G. Thwaites, Esq., Streatham Hill. 
It is the result of crossing Bc. Digbyano-Mossize with Lc. G. S. Ball. The 
sepals are buff coloured, the petals buff rose, and lip orange with a rose~ 
purple front. es 
DENDROBIUM FORMOSUM.—Generally regarded as the finest of the 
white Dendrobes, this elegant species was introduced to British gardens from 
the Khasia Hills by Gibson, who sent it to Chatsworth in 1837, where it 
flowered in May of the following year. Some of the finest formsare said to 
have been found in the Mangrove swamps of the Andaman Islands, along 
the sea-coast, where in stormy weather the plants must be covered with 
sea-spray. 
