190 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
‘ Most of the Dendrobiums mentioned below are met with in the deep 
valleys and on the slopes of the hills. Dendrobium crassinode is found at 
the very top of the highest trees, and it is often a very dangerous task 
attempting to get at them. Saccolabium bellinum is found on trees in deep 
shade, with water below, and a constant moist atmosphere. I have seen it 
under these conditions over 5,000 feet above the sea-level. I have also seen 
Vanda ceerulea of a very dark type, on trees overhanging a stream, at the. 
same elevation, but not in deep shade. Vanda Kimballiana grows mostly 
on rocks, and in clusters, which break up into single plants on being pulled 
off. Like V. Amesiana, it likes the sun, and I have seen both species 
clinging to bare rocks in the full blaze, without any shade. Of Vanda 
Bensoni there are many varieties, and these have the same habit as V. 
coerulea. I believe Vanda Vipanii is also to be found here. There are oak 
woods on the road from Fort Stedman to Taunggyi, but I have never seen 
Vanda ccerulea growing on the trees there. Wanda Parishii is found near 
the Salween River, and the variety Marriottiana is fairly plentiful east of 
Lake Inle. 
Cypripedium bellatulum is very generally distributed in the area 
described above. It grows on low hills, in loam, among the under-growth, 
or on rocks to some extent directly exposed to the sun. Cypripedium 
Parishii grows in big clusters in the forks of trees, on the middle and lower 
branches, fairly shaded. It also grows freely on rocks, under the same con- 
ditions as C. bellatulum, but not on low hills in loam. 
Cypripedium Charlesworthii was discovered by me at a place some 
twenty-five miles south-west of Lake Inle, high up on a limestone hill, fully 
5,000 feet above sea-level; and very recently it has been gathered in quite 
an opposite direction, forty miles north-east of the Lake, or some sixty 
miles from the place in which it was originally found. It appears to make 
its home on hills of a certain formation only. Ina break in a range of hills 
there are isolated peaks, high and precipitous, inaccessible to Europeans, 
and it is here that it grows. I have been out with Shans, and on arriving 
at a particular place they, by looking at the hill, will tell you whether G. 
Charlesworthii will be found there or not. If it occurs at all it will be in 
large quantities, and not a plant will be found on neighbouring hills of 
different shape or formation. It grows fairly high up on the west and north- 
west slopes only, never near the base or to the east, south or south-west. 
The roots cling to the rocks with extraordinary tenacity, and the bigger 
plants could only be gathered by cutting through the roots with a dah, or 
Burmese knife. As a rule there is plenty of under-growth around, but I 
have seen plants growing in the crevices of the bare rock. It grows at a 
higher level than C. bellatulum, but on one occasion I think I saw C. 
Charlesworthij and C. bellatulum growing together. I have also seen Den- 
drobium Dalhousieanum and other Dendrobiums with a piece of C. 
