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a fairly robust plant with sub-cylindric stems, 6 to g inches long, and with 
leaves narrowly oblong, 4 to 5 inches long. The flowers, borne near the 
apex of the stem, are fawn-yellow, fading to ivory-white, the lip marked 
with reddish-orange. The variety lateritia has brick-red on the lip, and 
the variety Wattii is said to have larger flowers, white, with parts of the 
lip yellow. D. cariniferum is a native of Burmah, and flowered for the first 
time in England in Mr. Marshall’s collection at Enfield in 1869. The 
specific name “ keel-bearing ”’ refers to the prominently keeled sepals. 
OrcHID CULTIVATION IN AsSAM.—Being interested in the cultivation of 
Orchids, and having a collection of nearly 300 plants, mostly collected 
locally and all East Indian, I desire to add some examples of South 
American origin, but am unable to decide exactly what varieties would 
succeed with me. I have what is called here a grass house, that is, a house 
built of posts with a wire frame, the wire being interlaced with thatch 
grass, but entirely open on the north side. This class of house is generally 
used in the plains of India for the cultivation of ferns, and all our local 
Orchids certainly thrive in it. The temperature here ranges from 100 
degrees in shade during the hot season to 40 degrees in the cold season. 
The rainfall averages 150 inches, falling during the months of April to 
September. Can anyone kindly advise me? I am living at the base of 
the Eastern (Bhutan) Himalayas, and in the jungle quite close are 
numerous varieties of Dendrobium, Ccelogyne, Bulbophyllum, Cymbidium, 
Saccolabium, Pholidota, Vanda, Aérides, etc.,.as well as numerous ground 
Orchids. Will any readers exchange plants with me?—G. L. HINDE, 
Angarakhata Estate, Kumarikhata P.O. Kamrup, Assam. 
MAXILLARIA FLETCHERIANA.—This attractive species has recently been 
figured in the Botanical Magazine (t. 8949). The late Mr. Rolfe compared 
it originally with M. grandiflora and M. Sanderiana, but subsequently 
placed it next to M. Huebschii. The descriptive note accompanying the 
above-mentioned plate says that “its affinity lies clearly with the first 
species, and also, though more remotely, with M. Lehmannii and M. 
_molitor. It approaches even more closely to a plant collected by 
_Lehmann on the Rio Pastaya below Banos in Eastern Ecuador, and 
written up by him as M. Schroederiana, and in a later writing as M. 
grandis, Reichb., f. The name M. Schroederiana has never been published 
and need not be considered.” Messrs. Sanders state that the exact locality 
where Forget found the plant is not known, but that it was in Southern 
Peru on the borders of Bolivia, or just inside the Bolivian boundary. It 
flowered at St. Albans in April, 1913, was named in honour of the Rev- 
J. C. B. Fletcher, of Chichester, and received an Award of Merit when 
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