242 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
been considerably enlarged and revised throughout, while several additional 
illustrations are given, and four lithographic coloured plates, each showing 
a group of the more popular kinds, some forty-three in all. Another 
addition deserving mention is a table of instructions under various heads, 
such as temperature, situation, potting, watering, and time of growth and 
flowering, and as the species are alphabetically arranged in the left-hand 
column, it is extremely handy for reference. Eleven pages at the end are 
devoted to Questions and Answers, and will repay careful perusal. As 
regards nomenclature we note that a few defects of the former edition have 
been remedied, and altogether the value of the work as it appears in its 
new dress is considerably enhanced, and will doubtless be welcomed 
accordingly. A few of the additional illustrations will be familiar to our 
readers, having already appeared in these paves, and the others have also been 
prepared by the half-tone photographic process. Two of them represent 
scenes in the collection of the Right Hon. J. Chamberlain, M.P., over 
which Mr. Burberry so ably presides, and these, by the kindness of the 
publishers, we are able to reproduce (pp. 233, 241). _ We have no doubt 
that this useful work will prove an invaluable guide to the numerous 
amateurs and others who are engaged in the cultivation of these charming 
plants. 
HABENARIA RHODOCHILA. 
This charming little species almost rivals the brilliant Habenaria 
militaris, as the colour of its large and gracefully four-lobed lip isa beautiful 
scarlet—or sometimes orange-scarlet—which is very effective. And, fortu- 
nately, it is equally amenable to cultivation, for there are several pans in the 
Cool house at Kew which are growing and flowering with almost native 
luxuriance. It is a native of Southern China, and was originally found 
growing in shade near the North River, Canton, and afterwards on the 
Lo-fau-shan Mountains. It is said to grow on rocks in a thin layer of rich 
vegetable mould, and from its habitat will require less heat than H. militaris, 
though, with this exception, we believe that the treatment detailed at page 
83 of our first volume for the latter will also serve for H. rhodochila. It 
grows from about eight inches to a foot high, and bears four to six 
lanceolate leaves near the base, the scape terminating in a raceme of six to 
twelve flowers, the lip being as above described, and the sepals and petals 
light green. These, however, are very small in proportion to the lip. The 
species is very happily named, and forms a very charming addition to the 
number of terrestrial Orchids in cultivation. There is a variety in which 
the colour of the lip is light cinnabar-orange, for which the name vat. 
cinnabarina is very appropriate. 
