372 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [ DECEMBER, 1923- 
Some fifty fine plants of Brassocattleya Ilene are a feature here. 
Coelogyne Veitchii with its pendulous and delicate spike of bloom proved 
an attraction in another house. The genus Phalenopsis is well represented — 
by healthy plants of P. Schilleriana, P. Stuartiana, and P. amabilis, in 
large quantities, which in due season should yield a fine display of bloom.. 
One plant of Angrzecum articulatum has been cultivated by this firm for 
over thirty years, while near it are good plants of the singular Bulbophyllum 
macrobulbum and the striking B. Fletcherianum; at the end of the house, 
plants of Eria armeniaca on wooden rafts revel in their surroundings. In 
this most interesting house a collection of different varieties of Miltonias 
appears to succeed remarkably well, while suspended from the roof was 
noted the rare Cymbidium Devonianum, a plant requiring skill to maintain 
it in a growing condition. Space is too restricted for an enumeration of 
everything, but the nursery is of easy access and close to the Crowborough 
Station of the L.B.S.C.Ry. section of the Southern Railway. I can testify 
to the fact that visitors are always welcome. * OBSERVER.” 
CIRRHOPETALUM GRACILLIMUM. 
T the Royal Horticultural Society’s recent Autumn Show of Orchids, a 
well-flowered plant of Cirrhopetalum gracillimum was included in the 
group exhibited by J. J. Joicey, Esq., The Hill, Witley, Surrey (gr. Mr. J. 
Mackay). This species was originally described by Mr. Rolfe, in 1895, 
though it had been known since April, 1888, when it flowered in the 
collection of T. R. Jarvis, Esq., of Chelmsford. It is a graceful little 
plant, producing slender scapes about nine inches high, with an umbel of 
numerous reddish-crimson flowers. The lateral sepals are almost thread- 
like, about one and a half inches long, while the dorsal sepal and the petals 
bear numerous long ciliate hairs. 
Respecting the fertilisation of the flowers, Mr. H. N. Ridley has 
remarked: ‘‘ This is a very distinct little species, and, though the flowers 
are small, is really pretty. The lateral sepals are so bent and connate at 
the base as to form a tube with a circular mouth, over which hangs the 
violet lip. Their apices are separate and hang down, and are very slender 
and setaceous. The petals are rather long in proportion and strongly 
ciliate. The flowers form a perfect circle, and look like a series of very 
small parrots’ heads, the lip representing the beak. They are (as indeed all 
the Cirrhopetala are) fertilised by a minute Dipteron, which usually settles 
upon the long pendent sepals and climbs up them till it reaches the lip, 
upon which it sits, and when it has gone beyond the balancing point I have 
seen one fly ride on the lips of all the flowers in an umbel in turn, but as a 
rule only one or two flowers at most are fertilised.” 
