NovEMBER, 1922.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 343 
NEW. ORCHIDS. 
HE forty-ninth Decade of New Orchids is published inthe Kew Bulletin, 
1922, No. 1. It was left completed by the late Mr. R. A. Rolfe at 
the time of his death, and represents his last contribution to the study of 
the Orchidacez. The plants described are :— 
Agrostophyllum seychellarum. An interesting species from the Seychelles 
Islands, and which has long been known from fruiting specimens. [t appears 
to be allied to the Ceylon A. zeylanicum. The petal-like character of the 
lip was remarkable, but was found in five flowers examined. 
Catasetum Rothschildii. This species is said to have flowered in the 
collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., in February, 1899, having 
originally been obtained from the Hon. Walter Rothschild. The flowers 
are light green, with the inside of the lip buff-yellow. 
Microstylis Whitmeei. A novelty from Samoa, and allied to M. 
Reineckiana, but having much larger flowers. 
Bulbophyllum scandens. Remarkable for its stout climbing 4-angled 
stems, and the absence of pseudobulbs. A native of the Seychelles Islands. 
Thomasset remarks that it is found climbing rocks and trees, and that the 
flowers are cream coloured or purple. 
Microstylis Thomassetti. From the Seychelles Islands. Endemic. It 
is stated that a plant in the Calcutta Herbarium collected in Burman is 
very similar, and may represent the same species, though there are a few 
differences in the floral structure. 
Maxillaria insignis. This novelty is described as being a very large and 
distinct species, which was introduced by Messrs. Sanders, and flowered at 
the Royal Botanic Garden, Glasnevin, in May, 1912. The sepals and petals 
ghtly and the latter strongly striped with red- 
are ivory-white, the former sli 
with some brown markings on the front 
purple, while the lip is dull yellow, 
lobe, a red-brown suffusion on the side lobes, and a deep yellow crest. 
Camaridium vinosum. A species of unrecorded habitat which flowered 
in the collection of the late Sir Trevor Lawrence in July, 1899. 
Cryptophoranthus Lehmannii. A Colombian plant which flowered at 
Glasnevin in November, 1899, and subsequently at the Zurich Botanic 
Garden, and in the collection of the Hon. Walter Rothschild. The sepals 
are heavily blotched with dull purple on a whitish ground, which becomes 
yellow towards the base of the lateral pair; the petals and lip are yellow, 
the former more or less spotted with dull purple. 
Megaclinium angustum. A species from West Tropical Africa sent to 
Kew by Mr. J. H. Holland, Curator of the Botanic Garden, Old Calabar, 
and flowered in the Kew collection in June, 1900. The flowers are almost 
uniformly lurid purple in colour, a little paler on the dorsal sepal and petals. 
