80 THE ORCHID REVIEW. APRIL, 1918, 
ee PHYSOSIPHON LODDIGESII. es 
HYSOSIPHON Loddigesii is the original species of a small genus of 
p Pleurothallis-like plants, in which the sepals are united at the base 
into a narrow tube, which is somewhat inflated below and constricted at the 
mouth. It was originally described and figured by Loddiges, in 1830 
(Bot. Cab., t. 1601), under the name of Stelis tubata (probably a slip fot 
tubulata, in allusion to the narrow tube). As to its origin, Messts. 
Loddiges remarked : “ We received this curious little plant from Mr. Deppé, 
Fig. 8. PuHysosipHon LoppicEsil. 
who collected it at Xalapa, in New Spain, in 1828.” It was afterwards 
separated by Lindley, under the name of Physosiphon Loddigesii (Bot. Reg. 
sub t. 1797), and later a good figure appeared in the Botanical Magazine 
(t. 4869). It is a plant of the easiest possible culture, and produces # 
profusion of graceful spikes of reddish orange flowers. When out of bloom 
it somewhat resembles a Masdevallia, and it thrives under the same 
treatment. It is now flowering freely at Kew, together with the much finer 
P, Lindleyi, Rolfe (Kew Bull., 1893, p. 61), which is also a native of Mexic® 
There are several Andine wt Brazilian species of the genus, which are not 
known in cultivation, R. A. RB 
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