sian At Soe MERTEN A tA 
a ipless flowers, three being close to the base of the 
: occurring, after a rather long interval, below the no 
a a tareand handsome Arachnanthe Clarkei is pro 
a Striking flowers. The very distinct Bulbophyllum 
Se alg Spikes, which show well their glaucous sepals and the curious 
4 *xuding pearl-like drops of nectar from the back. 
NoveMBER, 1914.| THE ORCHID REVIEW. 349 
Rees DICH/EAS FROM COSTA RICA. eel 
as species of Dichza are very seldom seen in cultivation, but two 
have now flowered at Kew in a small collection of living Orchids 
sent from Costa Rica by Mr. C. H. Lankester, and form the subject of a 
paper in the last number of the Kew Bulletin (pp. 361-362). Both were 
described by Reichenbach, and one of them has been much confused in 
books. 
D. HISTRIO was originally based on a drawing by Lindley of a plant 
which flowered in the garden of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick in 
October, 1856, and which is said to have been sent from Mexico by Botteri. 
This Lindley confused with his D. echinocarpa, originally based on the 
Jamaican Epidendrum echinocarpum, Swartz, which is quite distinct. 
When Reichenbach described D. histrio he remarked that it was identical 
with a plant that passed in commerce under the name of Pachyphyllum 
procumbens, which was a true Dicheza, and this note enables another 
doubtful plant to be cleared up, for, though elsewhere recorded, it has not 
been described, and has stood as a doubtful Pachyphyllum down to the 
present. The Mexican specimens hitherto referred to D. echinocarpa really 
belong to D. histrio, which is most allied to D. muricata, Lindl., but is 
larger in all its parts, and has not such closely arranged leaves. 
D. BRACHYPODA was based on a specimen collected at San Miguel, Costa 
Rica, by Wendland, in May, 1857, the collector describing the flowers as 
light green with reddish spots. It was compared with D. graminioides, 
Lindl., and Mr. Lankester’s plant agrees so well with the description as to 
leave little doubt as to its identity. There are other Central American 
Dicheas that are only known from description, and further materials would 
be acceptabie. R.A. 
SAC es sR 
Orcuips at Kew.—Several very interesting Orchids are again flowering 
at Kew, and first and foremost we must mention that the large plant of 
ie Grammatophyllum speciosum in the Victoria House is again producing a 
ne spike. On this occasion there are no fewer than seven of the peculiar 
spike, and the other four 
rmal flowers. A planto 
ducing a spike of four of 
Gentilii is bearing 
habit of 
We may also mention a 
Me plant of Ione paleacea with nineteen racemes, the rare Gongora 
a ‘ 
a Wantiaca, and a beautiful group of Pleiones. 
