132 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [May, 1923 
doubtful if three such plants have been or are in cultivation elsewhere. 
The Vanda Deari was acquired some years ago from Messrs. Sanders, who 
received it from their collector Micholitz, and in all good faith was said not 
to be a robust growing species. The plant at Mundham, however, now 
extends from the floor to the top of the house—a large structure—and 
evidently has not yet finished growing. It would be a puzzle to know how 
to accommodate such a plant, but fortunately Vandas on the whole are 
accommodating and the stem can probably be curved. The flowers are large, 
fleshy, and cream-yellow, on few flowered axillary inflorescences. The habit is 
not unlike that of Arachnanthe Lowii, but the foliage is bright green, shorter 
and stiffer. It was originally described by Reichenbach, f., in 1886 (Gard. 
Chron., xxvi. 648) and received a First-class Certificate when exhibited by the 
late Baron Schréder at the Royal Horticultural Society in September of the 
same year. Reichenbach likened it to Vanda tricolor, but the flowers are 
much larger, though fewer, than those of that species, and beyond the usual 
Vandaceous characters have no resemblance in the habit, the foliage being 
much broader and of greater texture. 
A second house contained a gem in Ceelogyne pulchella, alone worth a 
visit. ‘ Coelogyne as a genus includes many beautiful yet apparently widely 
separated species, but though many are larger, few rival the one above- 
mentioned in beauty and distinction. The ovate pseudobulbs are about 
two inches high, and carry one, or usually two, dark green leaves three to 
five inches long. The spikes are erect, four to six inches high, six to ten 
flowered, perhaps more. Each flower is about one inch across, with narrow, 
straight, backward inclined, horn-like petals, which with the broad rounded 
sepals are pure glistening white. Contrasting with this purity is the lip, 
which though outlined with white, has a large central disc of dark brown 
with a black-brown crest. Roughly the flowers resemble those of Coelogyne 
Micholitzii in miniature, but have the advantage of extreme beauty. Re- 
garding this last mentioned species, weird and curious are more applicable 
terms. 
Other plants noted in flower were Ipsea speciosa, Bletia Shepherdii, 
Epidendrum elongatum album and a very fine form of Dendrobium 
fimbriatum oculatum of an exceptionally deep orange hue in the sepals and 
petals. 
CymBipIum Pauwecsi1.—Cymbidiums are certainly among the most 
popular Orchids of to-day, and if we enquire the reason it is to found in 
their attractive qualities and easy cultivation. A specimen plant of C. 
Pauwelsii has been brought to a fine state of perfection by Messrs. J. & A. 
McBean. It consists of seven bulbs, carries two spikes, each just over six 
feet in length, and with a total of 47 large flowers. 
