FEBRUARY, 1915.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 45 
no plant delights. When the flowering period is over, keep the plants 
slightly on the dry side, but, having no pseudobulbs to support them, they 
must not be allowed to suffer through lack of water at any season. When 
in full growth the supply of water to the roots should be liberal, care being 
taken that the compost becomes dry between the applications. 
CLEANLINESS.—This is essential, but when the plants are grown under 
correct conditions they are not subject to insect pests. Thrips and stock- 
seeded scale may, however, infest them, and it is advisable to sponge the 
leaves once or twice a year with some safe insecticide. The best times 
are, perhaps, just before the plants come into bloom and after repotting. 
Should anyone have the inclination to acquire a complete set of varieties. 
they would possess a collection of plants of no mean order. Although 
some people consider that C. insigne is a plant of the past, I am convinced 
that for winter flowering there is nothing which can rival it. As the flower 
spikes push up and attain to sufficient length they should be neatly tied to. 
stakes to prevent twisting and to give the flowers a natural appearance. 
Tau Sab SF Oona, en SE 
ERIA BAMBUSIFOLIA. —A very distinct Eria has just flowered in the 
collection of H. J. Elwes, Esq., Colesborne, Glos., which proves to be Eria 
bambusifolia, a species originally described by Lindley in 1858 (Journ. Linn. 
Soc., ili. p. 61), from materials collected at 2000 feet altitude in the Khasia 
Hills by Griffith, and also by Simons. Lindley remarked: ‘I have no 
species very nearly allied to this, whose great leaves, resembling a bamboo, 
and loose terminal panicles, as much as ten inches long, are very peculiar.” 
It was afterwards collected in Sikkim by Sir J. D. Hooker, and later by 
Pantling, who figured it (King & Pantling, Orch. Sikkim, p. 119, t. 113)- 
Gamble also met with the plant in the Ganjam Hill Tracts, and Robertson 
in the Southern Shan States, the latter describing it as growing from two 
to three feet high. It may be added that Mr. Elwes brought his plant 
from Sikkim. The racemes are distichously arranged from the upper leaf 
axils, and the flowers stand erect on the arching racemes, and are striped 
with red-purple lines on a pale ground. Two allied species were sub- 
sequently described, E. crassicaulis, Hook. f., from Khasia, and E. 
leptocarpa, Hook. f., from Perak, and Sir J. D. Hooker formed a new 
section of the genus, called Bambusifoliz, for their reception. The plant 
will doubtless succeed under the same treatment as the evergreen 
Dendrobiums from the same region. 
Eria is a large and widely diffused Indo-Malayan genus, containing 
several very distinct sections, but the species are not generally grown, 
chiefly because the flowers are seldom brightly coloured, and often rather 
fugacious. | Several of them, however, are well-known in_ botanical 
collections. A.R. 
