May, 1922.] THE ORCHID. REVIEW. 139° 
CYCNOCHES . LODDIGESII. 
HIS singular Orchid owes its general name, “Swan’s neck,” to the 
C long, slender column, gracefully curved like the neck of a swan. It 
is the original species upon which the genus was founded by Lindley ins 
CYCNOCHES LODDIGESII. 
1832. The following year it was figured by Loddiges with the remark :— 
“ This extraordinary plant is a native of Surinam ; it was sent to us in 1830 
by our kind friend Mr. Lance, and it flowered in May, and 
Winter of 1832.’ For atime this species appeared to be fairly plentiful, but 
again in the 
