THE ORCHED REVIEVE 
VoL. XXX ] JUNE, 1922. [No. 348 
NOLES. 
VANDA SANDERIANA.—From a correspondent in Singapore we have 
received a photograph of a grand specimen plant of Vanda Sanderiana in 
full flower, the several spikes carrying a total of over fifty large blooms. 
This plant was eventually sold to an American visitor for £175. 
ANGR&CUM LEonIs.—The fine example of this species, which has 
recently flowered in the collection of Sir Herbert Leon, Bart., at 
Bletchley Park, Bucks, recalls the fact that it was one of the first species to 
be raised from seed under artificial cultivation. When M. Leon Humblot 
introduced it from the Comoro Islands, in 1885, he gave several plants to 
M. Loury, of the Paris Botanic Garden, who found on cone of them an 
almost ripe seed-pod. The seed was carefully sown on sphagnum moss and 
two little plants subsequently appeared. A. Leonis is botanically an 
interesting plant. Its leaves are equitant, that is to say, the upper surfaces 
on each side of the mid-nerve cohere, except at the base, and the blade is 
then brought into a vertical position. 
ZYGOPETALUMS.—The note on Zygopetalums (p. 141) affects a group 
well represented in Costa Rica, and so seldom seen in good condition under 
cultivation. It appears to me desirable that they should be grown in good 
leaf mould, or with a proportion of this. I am sure many of our forest 
carpets would supply excellent material for this. When well grown they are 
bulky subjects, and in favour with only the enthusiast who has a very 
catholic taste in Orchids. Most of ours grow in humid forests, as stated, 
but Warscewiczella lives under fairly dry conditions. Zygopetalum’ 
aromaticum, our best species, so delightfully fragrant, grows in the moist 
Atlantic zone at from 2,500 to 4,000 feet. Some of the Huntleyas and 
Kefersteinias are excessively rare, and the latter are hard to keep alive, even 
for a short journey in Costa Rica itself—C. H. LANKESTER. 
Orcuip Houses DaMaGEp.—We regret to hear that the Orchid houses” 
belonging to Mr. H. T. Pitt have been damaged by fire. This well-known 
amateur’s garden is in close proximity to the railway, and some sparks from’ 
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