356 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
PHAIUS MISHMIENSIS. 
The above handsome Phaius is now flowering in the Kew collection. It 
is the Limatodes mishmiensis, Lindl. (Paxt Fl. Gard., ili. p. 36), described 
from dried specimens collected by Griffith, in the Mishmi Hills, DW pper 
Assam, afterwards changed by Reichenbach to Phaius mishiensis 
(Bonplandia, v., p. 43). It has also been collected in hot valleys in Sikkim, 
at about 4,000 feet elevation, and below Darjeeling. It is also the plant I 
described as Phaius roseus (Kew Bull., 1893, p. 6, 1894, p. 182), brought 
home by the Right Hon. Earl of Scarborough, and at first reported as a 
native of West Tropical Africa, though the locality was afterwards 
corrected. Mr. Boxall has also collected it in Lower Burma at 6,000 feet 
elevation. The colour of the flowers, which Lindley did not know, is a 
very pleasing soft rose-pink, not unlike Calanthe x Veitchii, which 
changes to buff in fading, and there is a very characteristic ridge of white 
hairs down the centre of the lip. The flowers are borne in axillary racemes. 
It is a really handsome species, and the wonder is that it has not been 
introduced long before. R. Av R. 
AN IDEAL CYPRIPEDIUM LIST. 
Mr. Woodall writes that the reason why he did not include Cypripedium 
Fairieanum in his list at page 300 was that he has never seen it in flower, 
though he has been shown small plants of it. C. x cenanthum superbum 
and C. X vexillarium he would have included some time ago, but C. X 
Pollettianum and C. Charlesworthii eclipse them in point of beauty, and 
are more fitted to encourage a new admirer, the latter, moreover, being so 
easily grown. With respect to C. bellatulum and its hybrids, we think it 
is largely a matter of taste, and Mr. Woodall admits that owing to their 
dwarfness they look better when hanging up. As to the new hybrids there 
are many which, when they become better known, will probably be con- 
sidered indispensable. 
ORCHID COLLECTING IN BRITISH NORTH BORNEO. 
The following proclamation is taken from the Official Gazette, British 
North Borneo, for August rst, 1895 :— 
ORCHID COLLECTING.—No permit to travel for the collection of Orchids 
in Province Keppel and the District of Kinabalu is to be issued until further 
orders. Any person travelling or collecting Orchids without a permit is 
liable to a penalty of 500 dols., or to imprisonment under Proclamation VII. 
of 1890. Sandakan, July gth, 1895. 
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