Marcu, 1914.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
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LEAFLESS . ORCHIDS. Bd 
NUMBER of leafless epiphytes are found in the tropics of both 
hemispheres which are very rarely seen in cultivation, and one of 
them is shown in the annexed figure of a Jamaican Orchid, formerly 
referred to Angraecum, but now known under the name of Dendrophylax 
Fig. 13. DENDROPHYLAX FUNALIS. 
scianenpesitioencesisneimee 
funalis. The photographs--for two are here combined—represent a front 
view (below) and side view (above) of a plant bearing two flowers. They 
were sent to us by Dr. Hans Goldschmidt, Essen-Ruhr, Germany, who 
received them from Mr. W. Harris, Superintendent of Public Gardens, 
Kingston, Jamaica. A third photograph shows the whole plant much 
reduced, with a mass of elongated roots and the raft on which the plant is 
grown. The species has been known for over a century, having been 
described as long ago as 1786, under the name of Epidendrum funale, by 
