Juty, 1915.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 223 
at page 41 of our third volume, with a very interesting note by Mr. James 
Rodway as to the natural conditions under which it grows. The details 
of the fertilisation of the flowers by bees are not less remarkable than their 
structure, and are given at page 338 of our second volume. 
eices| ORCHIDS AT KEW. Bae | 
EVERAL very interesting Orchids are in bloom in the Kew collection. 
A plant of the rare Central American Epidendrum porpax is flowering 
very freely, its short-scaped, solitary purple flowers recalling to some extent 
the smaller E. Matthewsii, both of them belonging to the section Nanodes. 
Camarotis obtusa is another rarity, a native of the Himalayan district, and 
recalling somewhat C. purpurea, but bearing drooping spikes of light rosy 
flowers with a large orange-colonred crest on the lip, which gives it a very 
distinct appearance. Oncidium Waluewa isa charming little thing, bearing 
a short panicle of flowers barred with purple on a white ground. It was 
made a distinct genus by Regel, but the flowers are almost identical in 
shape with those of the Oncidium pubes set. Eulophia paniculata is a 
distinct Madagascar plant bearing rather narrow, somewhat mottled leaves, 
and a tall panicle, nearly six feet high, of light green flowers, with some 
_white and purple on the lip. Pleurothallis lilacina is a Brazilian species 
having broad fleshy leaves and a profusion of short spikes of lilac-purple 
flowers, the whole plant only a few inches high. Listrostachys 
forcipata is bearing five spikes of its very pretty semi-pellucid white flowers, 
and its equitant leaves recall those of Oncidium iridifolium, to which it 
bears some resemblance in habit. 
Megaclinium minutum is one of the smallest species in the genus, and 
is bearing several spikes of its red-purple flowers, situated on either side of 
a curious flattened rachis of similar colour, making it quite an attractive 
little plant. Nephelaphylium pulchrum vat. sikkimense is the Sikkim form 
of a Malayan species, from which it differs somewhat in its stouter habit. 
The leaves are variegated, and the flowers are borne in a short erect spike. 
Schomburgkia Thompsoniana, a species from the Cayman Islands, in the 
West Indies, is producing a panicle of yellowish flowers with the front lobe 
of the lip blackish purple in colour. Another rare and interesting plant is 
Catasetum Bungerothii aureum, one of the handsomest of the Catasetums, 
now bearing several large light yellow flowers. A plant of Bulbophyllum 
viridiflorum is bearing a fine umbel of large green flowers, and the way 
they radiate in a whorl, with the dorsal sepals thrown back and forming 
a pyramid in the centre, is very striking. The yellow Trichopilia 
Galeottiana is one of the rare kinds, and is in bloom near a plant of T. 
tortilis, while hanging up near by are plants of Stanhopea gibbosa and the 
