278 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (SEPTEMBER, 1914, 
length of time the small bulbs will show signs of distress. Weak examples 
ought not to be permitted to produce a flower scape. 
DENDROBIUMS.— Many of those belonging to the D. nobile section will 
be completing their season’s growth, and will in consequence need 
water less frequently than hitherto, but on no account ought the bulbs to 
shrivel. Where a house is devoted to their culture the temperature can be 
lowered to 50° or 55° Fahr., if the atmosphere is kept dry. This will make 
a grand house for resting other plants, such as Thunias, Catasetums, 
Mormodes, and several others that will occur to the grower. Plants that 
may still be growing can be taken to the warmest division until their 
growth is finished. D. Dearei, D. atroviolaceum, and others of similat 
habit must be rested in the Cattleya house, and here the indispensable D. 
Phalenopsis and D. formosum giganteum may remain during their 
flowering period. No shade will be needed on the Dendrobium house, as 
it is essential for their stems to be thoroughly ripened. 
LZLIA PUMILA AND VARIETIES.—These dwarf compact little Orchids 
are highly prized by some for buttonholes, the somewhat small flowers 
being most suitable for this purpose. They should be cultivated in shallow 
pans, which can be suspended in the Intermediate house. The usual 
rooting medium may be used, and any repotting takes place when roots — 
are seen emerging from the base of the current pseudobulb. The flowers 
appear in the autumn, and the plants must never get really dry. 
HABENARIA PROCERA.—A clump ofa fine Tropical African Habenaria, 
sent to Kew by Mr. A. C. Miles, Curator of the Agricultural Station on the 
Gold Coast, is now in bloom, and proves to belong to H. procera, Lindl., 4 
very imperfectly known species. It was originally collected in Sierra Leone 
by Afzelius, and described by Swartz under the name of Orchis procet® 
being transferred to Habenaria by Lindley (Gen. & Sp. Oreh., P- 318). 
Afterwards an Orchid, which had been received from Sierra Leone by 
Messrs. Loddiges, flowered in their establishment at Hackney, and was 
identified by Lindley, and flowered in the Botanical Register (t. 1858). ¢ 
copy of this plate is all that is preserved in Lindley’s Herbarium, and 
nothing further was known about the species when the Flora of Trop! 
Africa was published. The Kew clump is now producing three fine racemes: 
The plants are about eighteen inches high, and bear six or seven, lanceolate 
oblong, very undulate leaves on the lower part of the stem, and the racemes 
bear from about twelve to thirty white flowers, with the tips of the sep: 
and the apex of the spur green. The lip is three-lobed, with filiform side 
lobes, and the spurs are abont four inches long, pendulous, and sligh y 
thickened at the apex. It is a very graceful species, and its reappearance? 
cultivation is interesting. R.AR- 
