244 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [OcToRER, 1916. 
Rodriguez compared it with M. spectabilis, except as to the absence of the 
long bracts, but the shape of the flower is more like M. cuneata, and the 
sepals and petals are light yellow with a few brown markings. It was 
found in the province of Rio de Janeiro, and is still only known by the 
original drawing. ; 
Another lost plant which has ranked as a species for over sixty years 
must, I believe, share the same fate, namely, Miltonia anceps, Lindl. It 
was originally described by Klotzsch as Odontoglossum anceps (Allg. 
Gartz., 1851, p. 250), but was transferred to Miltonia by Lindley (Fol. Orch. 
Milt., p. 3), who remarked that he entertained no doubt of its identity with 
a plant that flowered many years ago with Messrs. Loddiges, as the leaves, 
&c., had. the same scorched, yellow appearance as M. flavescens. The 
inflorescence is preserved in Lindley’s Herbarium, with a painting of the 
flower, and is labelled Miltonia flava. Brazil, Loddiges. The name is 
recorded by Baxter (Loud. Hort. Brit., n. ed. p. 58g). M. Bluntii was 
afterwards figured in the Botanical Magazine (t. 5572) from a plant that 
flowered with Mr. James Bateman, at Knypersley, in 1865. It is said to 
have been sent to Messrs. Hugh Low & Co. by Mr. Blunt. This has 
rather broader, yellow sepals and petals, and the lip decidedly more like 
M. spectabilis. A single flower is preserved at Kew, and all are clearly 
natural hybrids between M. spectabilis and M. flavescens. M. Bluntii, 
Lindl., is thus an earlier name for M. festiva, Rchb. f. R. A. ROLFE. 
GOODYERA HISPIDA, LINDL.——This rare and pretty Orchid has just 
flowered in the collection of H. J. Elwes, Esq., Colesborne, Glos., the plant 
having been brought by him from Sikkim some time ago. Out of bloom it 
much resembles an Ancectochilus, the leaves being prettily reticulated with 
white on an olive green ground, and the veins tinged with light purple 
towards the margin. The species was originally described by Lindley 
(Journ. Linn. Soc., i., p. 183), from a unique plant that was collected in 
August, 1853, by Hooker and Thompson, at Churra, in the Khasia Hills, at 
4000 feet elevation, and for a good many years it was only known by this 
single plant. It was next found in Sikkim, for there is at Kew a copy of a 
painting from the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, the original of which is_ 
said to have been obtained from Sikkim in 1875. It was again met with 
there by Pantling, at Kali Jhora, in September, 1889, in the valley of the 
Teesta, at about 1000 feet elevation. From the latter material it was 
figured (King & Panitl., Orch. Sikkim, p. 283, t. 375). The species bears a 
compact spike of flowers with the typical Goodyera structure, and having 
olive green sepals tipped with white, and the petals and lip of the latter 
colour. The whole inflorescence is hispid, in reference to which the specific 
name was given. A plant of it has been presented to Kew.—R.A.R. 
