6 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
that he received plants from a correspondent in Bhotan. It is certainly 
curious that up to the present time nothing further should be known about 
it, a fact that seems to imply either a very restricted habitat or a remote 
or inaccessible station, and perhaps both. That it will eventually be re- 
discovered, like the old Cattleya labiata and Lelia Jongheana, we can 
scarcely doubt, and there is an opinion among persons well qualified to 
judge that it grows somewhere in that part of Assam which is so unhealthy 
that it is hardly ever visited on account of the risk. Be that as it may, it 1s 
a great desideratum at the present time, and many amateurs would 
welcome an opportunity of adding to their collections a plant of which Sir 
William Hooker remarked that “the blossoms are certainly amongst the 
most exquisitely coloured and pencilled of any in this fine genus.” 
- It is difficult to say exactly how rare the plant is at the present time, 
but we do not remember to have seen it exhibited, at all events during 
recent years. The one record we know of—‘‘a Cypripedium entered as 
Fairrieanum, but which the Committee declined to adjudicate upon, being 
of unanimious opinion that it was incorrectly named” (ante, vil., p. 27) 
—requiring confirmation. The two or three small plants at Burford have 
been mentioned in our pages on several occasions, and at page 15 of our 
first volume it is recorded that “a flower opened towards the end of 
August, and lasted until the middle of November, and would no doubt have 
remained longer had it not been fertilized.” Messrs. Veitch exhibited it at 
a meeting of the R.H.S. in November 1880, when it received a First-class 
Certificate. There is also a record of a plant ‘ over three feet across” 
which was cultivated at Kew during the time the late Mr. Gower was there 
(see ante, ii., p. 287) and which we should like to know more about. 
Concerning its culture, Messrs. Veitch remark:—Many cultivators of 
Orchids have complained that Cypripedium Fairreanum is a difficult 
subject to induce to grow satisfactorily. We are inclined to believe that at 
east one cause of failure is to be found in the stress to which plants have 
been subjected for the sake of propagation, combined, perhaps, with the 
too high temperature in which weakly plants have been placed, with the 
view of inducing rapid growth. It is certain that this Cypripede does not 
thrive in a high temperature and close atmosphere, but if suspended near 
the roof glass of the Cattleya or Intermediate house, where it can receive 
the greatest amount of fresh air and light the circumstances of the house 
admit of, satisfactory results may with confidence be expected. In evidence 
of this, we can adduce no better instance than the splendid specimen in the 
collection of Baron Schréder, at The Dell, near Staines.’’ At Burford it 
is recorded as growing nicely in intermediate temperature with C. X 
Leeanum, a fact worthy of note in the case of so valuable and capricious a 
plant (ante. v., p. 206)... 
