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in British New Guinea, where it grows at an elevation of between 1,000 

 and 2,000 feet, and collected many, but had to wait about a month before 

 he could get away, during which time a white mycelium proved very 

 troublesome. At last he got to Cooktown, where he was again stranded for 

 nine weeks, and the plants placed in a cold court-yard. Twelve days later 

 he arrived at Batavia, and in two more days he reached Singapore, when 

 he found the plants almost as fresh as when leaving New Guinea, and not a 

 single plant dead. After some delay at Singapore, Mr. Fox, of the Botanic 

 Garden there, who was coming home on leave, took charge of them, and 

 the plants arrived at St. Albans almost as fresh as when collected. And 

 he adds :— " I do not think any other kind of Orchid would stand such 

 prolonged rough treatment half as well." 



Then take the grandest of all the Ancetochili, I mean A. Leopoldi, with 

 leaves six inches long and four inches broad, and most wonderfully marked. 

 When the plants arrived in Belgium they had been on the road over three 

 months, yet they were so good that they were exhibited at the Ghent 

 Quinquennial Show, where I have no doubt you saw them. 



In Singapore I have seen them in private gardens, just potted in 

 ordinary soil, and treated by native gardeners just as they treat Begonias, 

 Caladiums, and things of that sort, and they do very well. 



But I think I have said enough to convey my impression that if people 

 would seek to understand the Anoectochili, and treat them rationally and 

 more like other plants, there is nothing in their nature which prevents them 

 being easily grown. 



LISTROSTACHYS FORCIPATA. 



A very curious little plant which was sent from Buea, in the Cameroons, 

 West Africa, has just flowered at Kew, and so far as can be told from the 

 description belongs to the above plant. Listrostachys forcipata was described 

 byKranzlin, in 1894 (EngLJahrb., xix, p. 254), from dried specimens, which 

 had been collected in the primaeval forests west of Buea, at 4200 feet 

 altitude, by Preuss. It was said to be one of the smallest species of the 

 genus, much resembling a small Oncidium iridifolium in habit, the leaves 

 ensiform, slightly compressed, the racemes much shorter than the leaves, 

 and few flowered, the pedicels slender and three or four times longer than 

 the bracts, the flowers ± inch long, with the lip almost reduced to a large 

 infundibuliform spur, which is entire at the mouth, attenuate below and 

 contracted, then expanding into a deeply bifid or forcipate apex. The 

 living plant agrees in these essential particulars, and with such marked 

 peculiarities there is little doubt of its identity. The raceme, it may be 

 added, bears seven flowers, which are of a peculiar semipellucid white right 



