22 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (JANUARY, 1916. 
and its hybrids are now commencing to grow, and must be placed in a 
light position, and have water whenever they require it. C. Trianz wilh 
soon begin to bloom. 
CG@LOGYNE CRISTATA and its varieties are now pushing up their flower 
spikes at the cool end of the Intermediate house, and must not be allowed 
to suffer for want of water. Other varieties of Ccelogyne must have water 
according to their condition; those that are growing must have it applied 
to them whenever they become dry, and those at rest should only have 
sufficient to prevent shrivelling, as a long season of rest is essential to their 
satisfactory flowering. 
CaLANTHEs of the deciduous section that have finished flowering should 
be placed in a nice warm dry situation to rest until they start to grow in 
the spring. Care should be taken that the temperature does not fall too 
low, neither should the position be a damp one. 
GENERAL REMARKS.— Whilst the open weather continues a good supply 
of sphagnum moss, peat, and other materials should be acquired, so that 
when the busy season is upon us no delay be experienced for the want of it. 
Owing to abnormal freights osmunda fibre is likely to be scarce and reach 
an unusual price, so that whenever possible it will be advisable to keep a 
stock in hand. 
I trust that each of us, and, most of all, that our beloved country may 
Teap every success in the coming year. 
plates BN REE 
PLEUROTHALLIS LEPTOTIFOLIA.—We believe Reichenbach once 
remarked that “an Orchidist should be armed with a large magnifying 
glass,” and it would certainly have been useful at the last R.H.S. meeting, 
when Messrs. Flory & Black, Orchid Nursery, Slough, exhibited a plant of 
the above dainty little Orchid. It was in a small seedling pot, and might 
well have been accommodated on a block the size ofa penny. It formed a 
small tuft, under an inch high, with nineteen deep yellow flowers. It is a 
native of Brazil, where, according to Rodriguez, who described it in 1877 
(Gen. et Sp. Orch. nov., i. P- 15), it occurs in numerous localities in the 
province of Minos Geraes. It Srows on the branches of trees, and his 
drawing shows a fairly stout creeping rhizome, with numerous fleshy terete 
leaves, about 2 inch long, and slender 2-flowered Scapes about twice as long 
as the leaves, the flowers being about three lines long, and deep yellow in 
colour. Glaziou afterwards collected the plant in the province of Rio de 
Janeiro. It was introduced to cultivation some years ago, and has been 
twice figured, once from Rodriguez’s original drawing (Mart. Fl. Bras., iii. 
pt. iv. p. 502, t. 148, fig. 3), and once from the cultivated plant (Rchb. f. 
Xen. Orch., iii. Pp- 134, t. 276, fig. 3). It may be compared to a minute 
‘AK, 
a 
Leptotes in habit.—R 
