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highly of some sketches and a few specimens obtained from the same 
source. At the same time more and more Moulmeinese Orchids appeared 
in the trade, among which the beautiful Phalznopsis Lowii and a 
crowd of Dendrobiums were the most striking. The names of the 
collectors were kept secret, but afterwards it was well known that the 
plants were sent home by Parish and Colonel Benson. In 1865, Bateman, 
when figuring Dendrobium Parishii (Bot. Mag., t. 5488), wrote:—‘‘ A 
glance at the recent volumes of the Botanical Magazine will show the 
large number of new and beautiful Orchids that have been secured to 
the collections of this country through the zeal and enterprise of Mr. 
Parish, whose eye seems to be ever ready to detect any new forms amid 
the striking vegetation of the rich country that is now the scene of his 
missionary labours.” 
Parish contributed the account of the Orchids to Mason’s Burma 
(vol. II., pp. 148-202), where we find this interesting note from his own 
pen :—‘‘ My opportunities of observation were almost unrivalled. Fixed 
at one station for upwards of twenty years, and having some 150 species 
growing in my garden, fresh supplies being continually brought in, it 
was my daily delight to watch their growth, and hardly a day passed 
on which I did not either draw or examine microscopically some one 
Orchid or another.” (J. c., p. 159.) The species enumerated numbered 
over 350, which, the author remarked, was a large number for so small 
an area, as nearly all were obtained from the Tenasserim provinces. 
In 1871, he brought home, and presented to Kew, ‘‘a_ beautiful 
collection of careful water-colour drawings, with analytical sketches, which 
have proved exceedingly trustworthy,” an account of which was given in the 
Transactions of the Linnean Society (XXX., pp. 133—155, t. 27—32), by 
Reichenbach, who, commenting on their remarkable character, remarked : 
“ Bulbophyllum lemniscatum, however, is the greatest glory of all the 
discoveries of Mr. Parish.” He finally retired in 1878, but after 
returning home retained an interest in his favourite group. Among the 
plants dedicated to him may be found a Dendrobium, Cypripedium, 
Vanda, Ccelogyne, Phalenopsis, Cymbidium, and others. Thus his 
name is immortalised in the annals of Orchidology, and his work will 
long be remembered by lovers of these charming plants. 
CYPRIPEDIUM NIGRITUM. 
In the Report of the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural 
Society, for July rath, 1860, the following note occurs, which, I believe, 
actually refers to C. nigritum, (supra, iv; p:' 79) and if so, it carries 
