Brit ORCHID REVIEW. 
Vou, XXX.] NOVEMBER, 1922. [No. 353 
NOTES, 
BRITISH ORcHIDs.—Under the title ‘‘ Some Notes as to British Orchids 
(1922),” Mr. C. B. Tahourdin, of Wallington, Surrey, has issued an 8-page 
pamphlet containing much useful information as to localities where he has 
found the various species during the present year. [Illustrations are given 
of Orchis maculata, O. latifolia, and O. praetermissa, as well as of O. 
hircina, Concerning the latter, commonly known as the Lizard Orchid, 
Mr. Tahourdin found a specimen with about 46 flowers near Lewes, and 
records another, with as many as 90 flowers, that was found near the same 
town. 
DENDROBIUM ARACHNITES.—This charming little species with its 
attractive flowers of cinnabar colour has recently been flowering in the 
collection of Lieut.-General Sir A. G. F. Browne, K.C.B., at Lower Bourne, 
Farnham. It is a native of Burma, and was discovered by Boxall when 
collecting for Messrs. Low & Co. The stems are barely three inches high, 
and the flowers are borne in fascicles of about three, and are of brilliant 
cinnabar-red, not unlike the colour seen in Lelia harpophylla. When 
Reichenbach described this species in 1874 he remarked: ‘“ Since the time 
when Sir Wm. Hooker described his unique Dendrobium amboinense, no 
Such remarkable and extraordinary gorgeous Dendrobe has been discovered.” 
D. arachnites flowered in Mr. Lee’s collection at Downside, Leatherhead, 
in 1886, when Mr. Day copied it for his collection of Orchid Drawings. At 
the present time there is a fine specimen in the Gatton Park collection. 
Epiractis Latiroiia.—At the Scientific Committee meeting of the 
Royal Horticultural Society held on Sept. rgth, Mr. John Fraser exhibited 
* Temarkable inflorescence of Epipactis latifolia which he had gathered 
n the part of Box Hill recently opened to the public, where it 1s plentiful. 
Although the spike carried no less than forty flowers, there was only a single 
instance in which any apparent attempt had been made to form an ovary. 
The Pedicels were much elongated, many being an inch in length; in some 
