16 THE ORCHID REVIEW. ([January, 1916.. 
established in a suitable tenement, be left in undisturbed possession of it 
or ten or more years in succession, thus relieving the cultivator from the 
unsightly changes and continual shiftings which stove plants are wont to 
require.” 
In a footnote the Author remarks: ‘‘In the collection of the Author, 
although specimens in flower may at all timies be seen, March and April, in. 
the spring, and October and November, in the autumn, are, perhaps, the 
gayest. months; the intervening period is ‘growing season’ with. a large) 
majority of the species, many of which come-into blow just before the 
commencement, anda still greater number immediately after its termina- 
tion. There are, however, several that flower at uncertain periods, others 
that flower all the year round, and likewise a few, we are concerned to say, 
never Bower: at all.” 
EPIDENDRUM WEDDELLII.—There are several of the purple- ‘dowera 
Epidendrums which have never appeared in cultivation, and among them,, 
so far as we can ascertain, the subject of this note. E. Weddellii was, 
described by Lindley in 1853 (Fol. Crch., Epidendr., p. 67), when the 
author remarked: ‘I have only seen a sketch of this among Mr. Weddell’s. 
Brazilian drawings. It represents a slender plant about a foot high 
with four leaves towards the root. The flowers are rose-coloured, like 
those of E. elongatum, and twice as large. The plant was found by. 
Weddell, in the province of Minas Geraes, in December, 1843, and a 
coloured drawing is preserved in Lindley’s. Herbarium. A very; similar 
plant has just flowered at the Royal Botanic Garden, Glasnevin, though we 
hardly think it can represent the same species. Sir Frederick W. Moore 
states that it was obtained from Messrs. Sander & Sons, in August, 1909, 
among a lot of newly-imported Orchids from Peru, and that it is rather 
curious in growth, as there are always two or three inches of internode 
between the branches, Another species of this affinity was described in 
1882, under the name of E. fractiflexum (Rodr. Gen. et Sp. Orch. nov., ii. p- 
181), from materials collected in the province of Ceara, by Freire Allendo, 
but this was made synonymous with E. Weddellii by Cogniaux (Mart. Fl. 
Bras., iil. pt. v. p. 169, t. 84). The original drawing shows a very zigzag 
thizome, with the short branches five inches apart. The flowers are 
described as rose-coloured in the dried state. Although nearly allied, it is 
probable that the Peruvian plant is specifically distinct, for, while the 
internodes are shorter, both the stems. and leaves are longer, and the 
flowers more numerous. The colour is rose-purple, the two side lobes of the 
lip rounded, and the front lobe cut into two oblong divisions, all being 
neatly denticulate. There are two or three other pina. known —* 
of this affinity.—R.A.R. 
