66 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
A flower of Cypripedium insigne Macfarlanei from the collection of R. 
H. Measures, Esq., Streatham, shows a curious departure. Instead of 
being bright yellow it is decidedly suffused with bright brown. Yet it is part 
of the original plant, but has been grown close to the glass in a cold house, 
though in the same materials. The contrast is remarkable. 
Flowers of Pleione humilis var. tricolor come from the collection of H. I. 
Elwes, Esq., the stripes on the lip being bright brown instead of purple, as 
in the type, which is also sent for comparison. The difference appears to 
result from an admixture with yellow in the case of the variety. 
We have again received flowers of the beautiful Selenipedium x pul- 
chellum from the collection of W. Vanner, Esq., Chislehurst, which, as 
already pointed out (supra, i. p. 166), bears a remarkable resemblance to S. 
x Sedenii leucorrhodum, in spite of its different parentage. 
The unique plant of the beautiful Lelia x Finckeniana has passed into 
the collection of E. Ashworth, Esq., Harefield Hall, Wilmslow. This season 
it has produced two fine racemes, each three feet long, on the two bulbs 
made last year. 
A fine form of Cypripedium insigne comes from W. Vanner, Esq., 
Camden Wood, Chislehurst, probably out of a recent importation. The 
flower is round and compact, the petals as much as seven-eighths of an 
inch broad; and the spots of the dorsal sepal numerous and more or less 
confluent. The colour is about that of typical C. insigne. 
NOTES ON ORCHIDS IN THE JUNGLE. 
By MAJOR-GENERAL E. S. BERKELEY. 
(Concluded from vol. ii. page 333.) 
In the neighbourhood of Amherst is also found Dendrobium ciliatum, a 
charming Orchid in this its best form. It has long stems, sometimes two 
feet long, but plants of this fine form must be very rare in our Orchid houses 
at home. The form more commonly seen in England is the variety breve, 
which is very plentiful in the neighbourhood of Thayetmyo. The stems of 
this are extremely short and stunted, seldom exceeding a few inches long. 
So utterly distinct are the two plants when out of flower that no one 
unacquainted with them could conceive that the flowers would be 
identical ; those, however, of the variety growing sparingly throughout the 
Moulmein district are individually much larger. The long dry season at 
Thayetmyo accounts for the variety being so stunted in habit. - 
