APRIL, 1922.] THE (ORCHID “REVIEW: 99° 
PLEUROTHALLIS GRANDIS. 
HE photograph herewith reproduced of Pleurothallis grandis shows a 
fine specimen growing ina native pot eight inches in height. This 
large and very distinct species was described by Mr. R. A. Rolfe (Kew 
Bulletin, 1918, p. 234), from a plant sent to Kew by Mr. C. H. Lankester, 
to whom we are indebted for the photograph and additional information. 
P. grandis belongs to the Macrophyllae Racemose group of the genus. It is 
PLEUROTHALLIS GRAN DIS 
a Native of Costa Rica, and common in the disticts of Cachi, Orosi, and 
Navarro, especially on the ridges where the forest is less dense, and it may 
terrestrial in the rich leaf mould which 
often be found there growing as a 
s the large 
accumulates in depressions in the ground. The main interest i 
size of the plant, the longest leaf with stem measured 37 inches. The spikes 
Carry up to fifty pendant flowers, the colour being green, more or less 
suffused and striped on the sepals with brownish red. The bulk of the 
Species of this genus are very small, many being almost of microscopic form. 
Mr. Lankester also sends a photograph, unfortunately not suitable for 
