200 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JULY, r914. 
XXlv. p. 307), and is said to be a native of Ceram. There isa single flower 
preserved at Kew, sent by Mr. J. J. Smith, from a plant cultivated in the 
Bogor garden. It is allied to B. orthoglossum, Krinzl. (in Gard. Chron., 
1908, i. p. 406, fig. 182), and has a quite similar spike, with compressed 
bracts, and two or three flowers, but the petals are much more acuminate, 
and the lip suddenly narrows below the middle, and is prolonged in a 
recurved tail-like appendage. B. mandibulare, Ridi., is a larger species of 
the same affinity.—R.A.R. | 
ees) AGANISIA BRACHYSTALIX. eS 
ieee is an interesting Trinidad Orchid whose history has not yet 
been cleared up. In June, 189s, a specimen collected on the Aripo 
Savannah, Trinidad, was submitted to Kew by Mr. T. I. Patter, St 
Anns, Trinidad, as “‘a terrestrial species, said to be Cyrtopodium 
cristatum, and having white flowers with a lemon yellow crest to the 
lip.” Comparison showed it to be the C. cristatum, Griseb. (Fl. Brit. W. 
Ind., p. 630), but not the original C. cristatum of Lindley. It was therefore 
named C. Grisebachii, Rolfe, and under this name was recorded by Mr. 
Patter in a paper on “ An Orchid Collection in Trinidad ” (Orch. Rev., ttl 
Pp. 276). Mr. Patter remarks: “It much resembles a grass when out of 
bloom, and the lovely white blossoms, with one lemon yellow stain on the 
lip, are like small flowers of Diacrium bicornutum. The flowers last a long 
time in beauty, and the plant is only to be found in one part of Trinidad, 
and there it is fast disappearing owing to the advancing tide of civilisation.” 
The habit was not that of a typical Cyrtopodium, and subsequent disse 
tion showed it to have the hippocrepic crest of the Zygopetalum group: 
There is a Z. brachystalix, Rchb. f., described in 1863 (Walp. Ann., Vie Ps 
660), based on a specimen said to have come from Trinidad, and although 
there is no clue as to where Reichenbach saw it we suspect that it may 
have been one collected by Criiger or Purdie, from both of whom there af 
specimens at Kew. This also was included by Grisebach in his Flora | 
{p. 629), but from description only. There is at present no clue as 10 
where the original specimen is, but from a comparison with the dried 
Specimens already mentioned we believe it to be the plant which Grisebach 
incorrectly called Cyrtopodium cristatum, Lindl., and the question oo” 
remains as to its correct genus. In habit and structure it agrees es 
Aganisia, and in fact the species is very closely allied to A. alba, Ridl., a 
native of Mt. Roraima, British Guiana. It has been coliected at the ANP? 
Savannah on five different occasions, by Criiger, Purdie, in July, 1846: 
Alexander, in January, 1893, Patter, in May, 1895, and Broadway, ™ 
February, 1911, and is apparently a very local plant R.A.R. 
