126 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JUNE, 1917. 
only two leaves. Whether it grows actually intermixed with C. Calceolus 
is not certain, but we have evidence of the two having been collected at the 
same place on the same day. It is rare in cultivation, but Mr. Elwes, in 
1899, brought home plants from the Altai mountains, where they were 
found growing in an almost impenetrable forest of Pinus Cembra, on the 
west shore of lake Teletskoi. They were successfully cultivated, and after- 
wards figured (Bot. Mag., t. 7746). The species has an exceptionally wide 
distribution, extending from Central Russia to the Ural Mountains, thence 
through northern Asia to Kamschatka, Manchuria, the mountains near 
Peking, and across the Aleutian Islands to Alaska, and as far as the 
Franklin River in north-west Canada. In the mountains of Asia it 
extends southwards to Szechuen, in western China, and to the eastern 
Himalayas as far as the province of Chumbi, in Thibet—an altogether 
exceptional diffusion. R.A.R. 
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I" has long been known that Java possesses a very considerable Orchid 
flora, a large number of species having been described by Blume as 
long ago as 1825, though the majority have been very imperfectly repre- 
sented in European Herbaria. A few years ago an enumeration was given 
by J. J. Smith, under the title of Orchids of Java, and he subsequently 
published a supplementary work giving analytical drawings of flowers of all 
the species of which materials were available, these numbering 483- 
Dendrobium appears to be the genus most numerously represented, as 
many as 52 species being figured. Javan Orchids do not occupy a very 
prominent position in gardens, always excepting the beautiful Phalzenopsis 
amabilis and Vanda tricolor and suavis, though Ccelogyne speciosa may be 
mentioned among a number of interesting though less showy species. 
Cypripedium is represented by C. javanicum, glaucophyllum, and Lowii. 
An interesting fact that has come to light as the flora of neighbouring 
islands has become known is the large number of endemic species, and the 
point is further emphasised in an article ‘‘ On some results of the botanical 
investigation of Java,” by Dr. J. J. Smith (Bulletin du Jardin de Botanique de 
Buitenzorg, xii. pp. 1-5). It is there remarked that many data for a good 
flora of Java are yet wanting, many species having been collected in a single 
or in few localities only. On this being pointed out to the Government the 
necessary funds for a botanical investigation of Java were most liberally 
granted. As a result, twenty great excursions and several lesser ones have 
been made. Many localities have been visited, and the flora was collected 
as completely as possible, and about 10,000 specime ns have been gathered. 
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