June, 1914.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 1g! 
ee ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. “| 
WO meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held in the 
Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, on June 
3rd (Wednesday) and 16th, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the 
usual hour, 12 o’clock noon. The next meeting is the Great Summer 
Show to be held at Holland House, Kensington, on Tuesday, Wednesday, 
and Thursday, June 30th to July 2nd. Cups and Medals will be awarded, 
as usual, according to merit. The Orchid Committee will meet at 10.30a.m._ 
We have not yet received the dates of meetings of the Manchester and 
North of England Orchid Society for the coming session. 
a5] BORNEAN ORCHIDS. Eee] 
RECENT issue of the Journal of the Linnean Society contains “ A Con- 
tribution to the Flora and Plant Formations of Mount Kinabalu and 
the Highlands of North Borneo,” by Miss Lilian S. Gibbs, F.L.S., giving 
full particulars of the exploration of the district and of the plants collected 
by the author during an expedition made during the winter of 1909-1910. 
In all about 1000 plants were collected, about a third of them on Mt. 
Kinabalu itself, and these contain three new genera and 38 new species. 
The account of the Orchids is contributed by Mr. R. A. Rolfe, Abo. 
and it is remarked: ‘‘ The Orchids collected by Miss Gibbs number 48 
species, of which twenty are new, including one new genus. In working 
them up two others collected on Mt. Kinabalu by Haviland were found, 
and as these had been named by Dr. Kranzlin but not described they are 
included in the present paper, which thus deals with fifty species, of which 
22 are here described for the first time. Of the fifty species 42 were 
collected on Mt. Kinabalu; of these no fewer than 23 are not yet known 
from elsewhere, and five others are only known from Borneo. Compar ve. 
the recent collection with that made by Dr. Haviland eighteen years earlier, 
it is remarked that Ridley enumerated 24 species as collected by Dr. 
Haviland, of which 18 (or a proportion of 75 per cent.) were endemic. ii 
these must be added two species not enumerated by Ridley, making a total 
of 26, of which 20 were endemic. Miss Gibbs has only re-collected seven 
of these, but on the other hand she has made 35 additions (this only 
includes those collected on Mt. Kinabalu itself), so that if the two 
Collections are added together we get an aggregate of 61 species found on 
the mountain, of which 53 (or a proportion of about 80 per cent.) are not 
known from elsewhere.” The majority are chiefly of botanical interest. 
