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Pantling which agree in character. Pantling calls it a small-flowered form 
ofV. cristata, found at elevations of 2000 to 4000 feet, while the larger- 
flowered V. cristata grows at 5000 feet (Orch. Sikkim Himal., p. 216). 
The larger-flowered ferm is figured at t. 287 of the work. There is alsoa 
coloured drawing of V. striata by Day (Orch. Draw., xxi. t. 77), made in 
June, 1877, from a plant obtained from Messrs. Hugh Low & Co. two years 
earlier. It was named by Reichenbach, and Mr. Day remarks: “I believe 
it is found near Darjeeling and in Nepal,’ and added, ‘‘there is a 
quaintness about it that I greatly admire.” It may be added that the disc of 
the lip is less strongly ridged than in V. cristata. 
eS REVIEW OF BOOK. 3 
Die Orchideen: ihre Beschreibung, Kultur und Zuchtung. Handbucher 
fiir Orchideenliebhaber, Kultivateure und Botaniker. By Dr. Rudolf 
Schlechter, Assistant in the Royal Botanical Museum, Dahlem, Berlin. 
With 12 colour-photographs from nature and over 200 half-tone figures. 
RCHID culture has of late years made great progress in Germany, as 
elsewhere, and Dr. Schlechter has now compiled a work that will be 
very useful for the amateur, gardener, and botanist, and whieh is to be 
published in ten parts, at the price of 2} marks each. Two parts, con- 
taining 176 pages, have now reached us, and it is hoped to complete 
the work during the autumn. The work opens with an introductory 
chapter in which the general structure of the family is discussed, 
after which comes a systematic arrangement of the family, based on the 
classification of the late Dr. E. Pfitzer, with an account of the various 
stoups and genera, and the principal cultivated species, part of which are 
dealt with in the first two parts received. Chapter 4 will be devoted to 
an account of the natural habitats and climatic conditions under which 
Orchids occur in a wild state, in which the experience gained by Dr. 
Schlechter during his travels in the tropics will be valuable. The 
remaining chapters will be devoted to Culture, by Herr A. Malaquist, 
Hetrenhausen ; Orchids for cut flowers, with a list of suitable kinds, by 
Otto Beyrodt ; Hybridising and seed raising, by Herr H. Janke ; 
ct pests and their eradication, by Dr. G. Lindau, and the Construction 
of Orchid houses, by Herr Otto Beyrodt. The work is well printed on art 
Paper, and the figures are by the familiar half-tone process. The colour- 
Photographs are taken direct from nature by the trichromatic process, 
od the first two parts being Odontoglossum grande, Paphiopedilum 
um, Cattleya labiata var. Mossiz, and Dendrobium Wardianum. 
Work is published by Paul Parey, 10 and 11, Hedemannstrasse, Berlin. 
