JUNE, 1923.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 169" 
CYRTOPODIUM PUNCTATUM. 
HE special feature of the Royal Horticultural Society’s meeting of 
April 24th was an excellent example of the noble Cyrtopodium 
punctatum exhibited by General Sir Arthur Paget, G.C.B., Warren House, 
Coombe Wood, Kingston Hill. This plant stood over four feet in height, 
and carried an erect inflorescence of equal height, the fifteen branches of 
which bore numerous flowers of bright yellow colour prettily marked 
with red. 
The genus was founded on Cyrtopodium Andersonii, one of the first 
tropical Orchids cultivated in England. Lindley stated that from its fleshy 
stems shoemakers obtained a kind of paste or glue which they used for the 
CYRTOPODIUM PUNCTATUM. 
purpose of their work. C. punctatum was first described in 1832, nearly 
twenty years after the formation of the genus. It was originally discovered 
by Plumier, in Cuba, later by Mackenzie in St. Domingo, by Deppe and 
Schiede in Mexico, in Northern Brazil by Martius, and in Southern Brazil 
by Gardner. Swainson, who introduced Cattleya labiata, sent C. punctatum 
to the Botanic Garden at Glasgow, where, some years after, in 1835, its. 
first flowers were seen. 
C. punctatum has thick, fleshy stems three or four feet in height, bearing 
on the upper part many narrow leaves 18-24 inches long. The flower scape 
is produced from the base of the stem, and at the angle formed by the side 
branches are leafy bracts of yellowish-green colour thickly barred with 
