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a plant collected in the Malay Peninsula (at first recorded as Siam) by 
Finlayson, and identical with the Javan plant, which latter Lindley did 
not even mention. In‘fact he gave the history and synonymy of Roxburgh’s. 
Indian plant, so that the confusion now became complete. The mistake is 
curious, for Lindley gave all the three species correctly in his Genera and 
Species of Orchidaceous Plants. Lindley’s C. pendulum var. brevilabre (Bot. 
Reg., xxx. t. 24), based on a plant collected at Singapore by Cuming, and 
flowered by Messrs. Loddiges, and the C. pendulum of the Orchid Album 
(x. t. 437), are also C. Finlaysonianum, which is a larger-flowered species, 
and has a wide range in the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, as far as the 
Philippines. 
The true C. pendulum, Swartz, is widely diffused in Northern India, 
from Nepal to Silhet and Bengal, while C. aloifolium, Swartz, is a South 
Indian plant, having a very acute lip and other differences. : It is rare in 
cultivation. These two, it may be added, are completely confused in the 
Flora of British India. R.A.R 
RES 
. is surely the commonest and best-known of our British Orchises, 
yet its identity is called in question in a long article by Mr. G. C. 
Druce which has just appeared (Kep. Bot. Exch. Club, 1914, pp- 99-106). 
It is asserted that for some years a wrong conception of Orchis maculata. 
has been prevalent in Britain, and that the plant which Linneus had in 
view when he established the species was not our familiar plant. From 
the few words of description of the original O. maculata, L., it is inferred 
that the Linnean plant is the O. maculata precox, Webster (Brit. Orch., 
ed. 2, p. 69), a dwarf, mountain-meadow, early-flowering form, which is 
also the O. ericetorum, Linton (F/. Bournem., p- 208), to which it is further 
stated belong the majority of the plants called O. maculata, L., on the 
Continent. He then runs through the different Floras, Continental and 
British, attempting to show that some refer 
(so-called) species, while others include both. 
an almost unbroken change of forms between 
adjoins a basic woodland,” but adds, ‘‘ whether these intermediates are 
hybrids between two distinct super-species, OF whether the variations are 
due to the soil conditions, has yet to be ascertained.” F inally he re-describes 
our familiar plant under the name of O. Fuchsii, Druce (p. 105). 
He then describes a hybrid between the two, as O. Fuchsii X maculata, 
adding four others, as follows: O. Fuchsii x pretermissa, O. Fuchsii. X 
latifolia, O. Fuchsii x incarnata, and OQ. Fuchsii x Habenaria viridis. 
ORCHIS MACULATA. 
to one, some to the other 
Yet he admits having seen 
