190 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [June, 1915, 
Not long afterwards a note appeared by Mr. N. E. Brown under the 
title “‘ The smallest Orchid known ” (L.c., 1880, ii. p. 598), in which it was 
pointed out that B. minutissimum was not exactly the smallest Orchid in 
the world, fora smaller species of the same genus was discovered some years 
previously by Dr. Beccari in Sarawak, Borneo (Beccari, No. 431), which is 
about one-third smaller than B. minutissimum. The habit is the same, 1.¢., 
like a small chain of green discs; but whilst in the Australian plant the 
pseudobulbs are orbicular, and bear their very minute scale-like leaves on 
the top in the centre, in the Bornean plant the pseudobulbs are oblong, and 
the minute ovate-acute leaves are given off at the side. The largest leaf 
measured is j line long and } line bread. He added that there were now 
three of these minute species of Bulbyphyllums known, all alike in habit— 
B. moniliforme (Burma), B. minutissimum (Australia), and Dr. Beccari’s 
Bornean plant, which is the least of the three, for although it has 
larger leaves than B. minutissimum, yet a pseudobulb and its expanded 
leaf of the Bornean plant will comfortably lie upon a pseudobulb of B. 
minutissimum in the same relative space of development, and leave room 
to spare. 
The Bornean species has since been briefly described under the name 
of B. Odoardi, Rchb. f. & Pfiz. (Engl. Pflanzenfam., ii. pt. 6, pp. 179, 
180, fig. 190 C), being placed in a distinct section, called Odoardiana, while 
a section called Minutissimz is established for B. minutissimum. The 
flowers of B. Odoardi are not known, but the two plants are so closely 
similar, down to the hispid capsules—which are larger than the leaves and 
bulbs—that it is probable the first-named section will have to be abolished. 
B. minutissimum has been well figured from life by Fitzgerald (Austral. 
Orch., ii. pt. 2), and has rosy flowers with darker ‘stripes and a dark rose 
margin to the lip. Fitzgerald remarks that the locality where B. 
minutissimum was originally discovered is now in the heart of Sidney. 
R.A.R. 
i ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. a) 
ie meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the 
Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, during June, on the 8th 
and 22nd, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 12 
o'clock noon. These are the dates fixed for the two Masters Memorial 
Lectures, by Dr. C. J. Russell, D.Sc., the subject being ‘‘ Recent 
Investigations ‘on. the Subject of Plant Food in the Soil.” Sir John D. 
Llewellyn, Bart., will preside on each occasion. The hour is 3 p-m. 
