360 THE ORCHID REVIEW. | DECEMBER, 1914. 
the Intermediate house should be chosen, and the plants placed fairly near 
to the glass. When they commence to grow they may be removed to the 
Cattleya house, and in due time any new compost can be given. Ordinary 
flower pots will suit the strong growing species, such as the beautiful T. 
suavis, but the less robust plants are best cultivated in rather shallow pans, 
which should be suspended from the roof. The ordinary compost may be 
employed, and when the repotting is done, the growing point may be 
slightly elevated above the rim of the receptacle. This will have a tendency 
to prevent the “lead” from damping off, but if the watering is properly 
carried out such a catastrophe rarely occurs, There are quite a number of 
interesting subjects in the genus Trichopilia, but from the decorative stand- 
point T. suavis and T. Backhouseana are usually selected. T. coccinea is 
also very handsome when well grown. 
DENDROBIUM ToFFTII is an interesting Australian species that was 
described in 1890 by F. M. Bailey (Syn. Queensl. Fl., Suppl. 3, p- 71); 
from materials collected on a creek of the Johnstone River, N. Queensland, 
by A. G. Tofft. The author remarked: “This new superb species 
approaches D. undulatum in habit and form of leaves. The stems, 
however, are much more compressed, and the flowers are both different in 
form and colour. The stems are said to be four to five feet high, and the 
inflorescences about 12 feet long, the sepals white, the petals faintly lined 
with violet, and frequently but not always curled, and the lip stained with 
violet and marked with forked veins, with three strong violet-coloured 
plates on the disc, and the column stained with violet. A plant bearing 
this name passed, with other Australian Orchids, into the collection of Sir 
Jeremiah Colman, Bart., some time ago, and was exhibited at the R.H.S. 
meeting held on November 17th last. It immediately recalled the 
Philippine D. taurinum, Lindl., and the exhibitor gave the inflorescence 
for preservation, and to enable the name to be verified. There is an 
authentic specimen from Prof. Bailey at Kew, consisting of a single leaf, a 
piece of the stem, and a single flower, from which the lip is, unfortunately, 
missing, but the sepals are narrower than in the plant exhibited and the 
petals relatively so much shorter, as to suggest that the two cannot be 
specifically identical. We should like to see better material of the Queens- 
land plant, for we do not see how the one exhibited can be separated from 
D. taurinum, which is also found in the Moluccas. The plant bore an erect 
inflorescence of three flowers, with whitish sepals, longer twisted petals 
tinged with lilac, and a broad lip tinged and veined with purple. It 
received a Botanical Certificate from the Scientific Committee. There 
are several other interesting North Australian species that are very 
imperfectly known at present.—R.A.R. 
