16 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JANUARY, 1923° 
yellowish-green, with numerous dark green reticulated nerves. Before 
photographing this plant, the tall spike was severed and its lower part 
removed in order to bring it within the measurements of a suitable block. 
The dorsal sepal of the flower is 2} inches long, and is slighly reflexed at 
the sides; the ground colour creamy white at the apex and base, the 
remainder suffused with light purple, the vertical lines being purple brown. 
The petals are four inches long, yellowish-white at the base, passing into 
brownish-purple towards the apex, and spotted with purple-brown. 
BULBOPHYLLUM BARBIGERUM. 
F all the so-called botanical Orchids, probably none has received so much 
attention or been so frequently noticed in the press reports of shows than 
Bulbophyllum barbigerum. It isa native of Sierra Leone, whence it was first 
imported by Loddiges, in 1833, and fowered in 1836. This latter date is some- 
times quoted as the date of introduction, but in a scarce little book entitled 
“* Orchideze in the collection of Conrad Loddiges & Sons, Hackney, near 
London,” 1844, the year of introduction is given as 1833. This plant is 
also mentioned in an earlier edition of the above book published in 1839. 
This singular plant was originally described by Lindley in 1837 (Bot. 
Reg, t. 1942) with the following remarks: *‘The lip is one of the most 
extraordinary organs known even among Orchidaceous plants; it is a long, 
narrow, flexuose, sharp-pointed body, closely covered with a yellow felt; 
just within its point there is a deep purp!e beard of exceedingly fine compact 
hairs ; on the under side, at a little distance from the point of the lip, is 
another such beard ; and besides these there is, at the end of the lip, a brush 
consisting of very long, purple threads, so excessively delicate, that the 
slightest disturbance of the air sets them in motion, when they wave gently 
to and fro, like a tuft of threads cut from a spider’s web; of the last 
mentioned hairs some are of the same thickness throughout, others 
terminate in an oblong club, so that when the hairs are waving in the air, 
and I do not know that they ever are at rest, a part float along gracefully 
and slowly, while the others are impelled by the weight of their glandular 
extremities to a more rapid oscillation. Nor is this all; the lip itself, with 
its yellow felt, its two beards, and its long purple brushes, is articulated with 
the column by sucha very slight joint, that to breathe upon it is sufficient to 
produce a rocking movement, so conspicuous and protracted that one is 
really tempted to believe that there must be something of an animal nature 
infused into this most unplant-like production.” 
CoRRECTION.—The date of the F.C.C. awarded to the Odontoglossum 
illustrated on page 361 of our last issue should read 1920. 
