232 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [Nov.-Dec., 1918. 
ag ‘| NEW ORCHIDS, Bee 
FORTY-SIXTH Decade of New Orchids, described by Mr. Rolfe, 
appears in the current issue of the Kew Bulletin, five of them being 
in cultivation. They are as follows :— 
PLEUROTHALLIS GRANDIS, Rolfe.—A large and very distinct species of 
the Macrophyllz Racemosz group, which flowered at Kew in September, 
1917, and again a year later. It isa native of Costa Rica, and was sent to 
Kew by Mr. C. H. Lankester. It is a large species, with cordate leaves, 
and the flowers are borne in a one-sided raceme, the colour being green; 
more or less suffused and striped on the sepals with brownish red.—Kew 
Bulletin, 1918, p. 234. 
BULBOPHYLLUM ROBUSTUM, Rolfe.—A Madagascar species, which was 
received from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, in 1914, without a 
name, and flowered at Kew in May, 1917. It is near B. crenulatum, Rolfe, 
(Bet. Mag., t. 8000), and the green and brown, very fleshy flowers are borne 
in a dense spike, with the lip sunk in a cavity formed by the united lateral 
sepals.—p. 234. 
MAXILLARIA PARVILABIA, Rolfe.—Flowered in the establishment of 
Messrs. Sanders, St. Albans, in May, 1917. It is allied to the Brazilian M. 
lencaimaita, Rodr., and has light yellow flowers, tinged with pink on the 
sepals and petals, and the lip with some brown markings and a yellow crest: 
It is believed to have been imported from Peru.-—p. 235. 
LISTROSTACHYS FLORIBUNDA, Rolfe.—Sent from the Department of 
Agriculture, Uganda, in 1916, and flowered at Kew in September of the 
following year. It is a dwarf plant, with linear-oblong, shortly bidentate 
leaves, and spikes of white flowers, tinged with buff on the elongated slender 
spurs.—p. 236. 
HaBENARIA HunTERI, Rolfe.—Sent to Kew by Mr. T. Hunter, Senior 
Curator of the Gold Coast Botanical Department, in 1915, and flowered in 
the collection in August, 1917. The flowers are white with green stigmas, 
and they bear a strong general rese nblance to those of H. Susanne, R. Br. 
—p. 238. 
The species not in cultivation are, Chrysocycnis Lehmannii, Rolfe, 
collected on the Tunguaragua Volcano, Ecuador, by Consul Lehmann ; 
Vanilla Havilandii, Rolfe, a Bornean species collected by Dr. Haviland ; 
V. andamanica, Rolfe, collected in the Andaman Islands by Mr. C- E. 
Parkinson ; Peristylus ugandensis, Rolfe, collected on the bushy highlands 
of Uganda by Scheffler; and P. Snowdenii, Rolfe, collected in short grass 
land at Lamaru, British East Africa, by Mr. J. D. Snowden, 
