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I trust this indication will be of use to cultivators who may wish to 
discard the usual fibres, and try to cultivate Phaius in ordinary loam, well 
drained, and as much as possible in the open air during mild weather. 
Belem do Para, Brazil. J. Srmao DA CosTaA. 
(There is something mysterious about the behaviour of these plants. 
When the true P. tuberculosus was introduced it was thought that, being 
terrestrial, it would succeed better than P. simulans, but this has not been 
borne out by experience. M. Warpur, the introducer of P. tuberculosus, 
states that it grows in the highest part of slopes in the high forest in half 
dry humus, at an altitude of 1200 to 1500 feet. He recommends an 
intermediate temperature for it. P. simulans, he states, climbs on tree 
trunks, at a lower elevation, and requires more heat and moisture. It 
would be interesting to know if P. simulans continues to thrive under the 
conditions named.—Eb. O.R.] 
Rises | ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. |AQe 
oe meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the 
Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, during 
August, on the 11th and 25th, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the 
usual hour, 12 o’clock noon. 
The next meeting of the Manchester and North of England Orchid 
Society will be held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on August 13th. 
The Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to the inspection 
of members and the public from 1 to 4 p.m. 
Mr. D. A. Cowan, who, during the last seven years, has represented the 
firm of Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., of Haywards Heath, has relinquished 
that position on July 13th, 1914. In the future he will act in a similar 
capacity for Messrs. J. & A. McBean, Cooksbridge, Sussex, with whom he 
has entered into partnership. 
ERIA PiLIFERA.—-With reference to the article on Exia pilifera, et 
page 171, Mr. J. J. Smith, of the Buitenzorg Botanic Garden, Java, writes 
from the Rijks Herbarium, Leiden: “I have much pleasure in informing 
you that the plant mentioned from ‘ Gojoe (Java 2)’ was collected in the 
Gojoe-laaden, near Atjeh, Sumatra, not by myself, but, I believe, by 
General Van Daalen, who sent the plant alive to Buitenzorg.” We thank 
Mr. Smith for the information. The reference was to 4 dried specimen 
Sent by him to Kew localised ‘‘ Gojoe,” and as we failed to find the locality 
sod wrote “(Java?)” as an inference. Atjeh is situated near the western 
Point of Sumatra, nearly opposite to the Malay Peninsula locality. R.A.R. 
