THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
Vor. VIII.] AUGUST, Ig00. [No. 92. 
DIES ORCHIDIAN-. 
THosE of my readers who have not forgotten the exciting history of 
Eulophiella Elisabethz will perhaps be glad to know that another chapter 
has been added to the story. I have received a Catalogue of Orchids 
offered for sale bearing the title “Liste des Orchidées récoltées par 
M. L. Hamelin, Voyageur Naturaliste, chargé de Mission a Madagascar,”’ 
and find that it contains an account of the plant in question, which is here 
translated from the original French :— 
‘* EULOPHIELLA ELISABETH. 
“I first discovered and introduced this remarkable species into Europe 
from Madagascar. It was in 1890 that I sent the first plant, and in 1893 I 
succeeded in bringing over a new importation in good condition. The few 
rare plants since introduced have arrived in rather bad condition, so that it 
may be said that all those which have flowered, and raised the enthusiasm 
of Orchid lovers, have passed through my hands. 
“Being desirous of introducing other Eulophiellas that I have 
discovered in my former voyages, I started for Madagascar at the end of 
1899, and my first care was to collect Eulophiella Elisabethe. 
* Unfortunately the successive cyclones which have ravaged the part of 
the island on which they grow, the bush fires, and the collections made by 
inexperienced people, have caused the deaths of thousands of plants, and 
made this species so rare in its native country that it is very probable 
that the Government of France will forbid the exportation for some 
ears. 
“‘Eulophiella Elisabethz is well known to amateurs, but a thing that is 
not generally known is, that it grows among the leaves and fibres of a 
