240 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [Aucust, 1911. 
now we have it from Formosa, showing that the species is widely diffused- 
D. aurantiacum was described as an ally of D. clavatum, differing in 
having a more slender stem, much narrower leaves, and the inflorescence 
one-to-three-flowered, with golden yellow flowers, to which may be added 
the absence of the characteristic blackish blotch on the disc... The bracts 
and tubular sheaths at the base of the inflorescence very closely resemble: 
those of D. clavatum. R.A.R. 
EPIDENDRUM LAMBDA. 
AN interesting Epidendrum, which I do not remember to have previously 
seen alive, was exhibited by Messrs. Mansell & Hatcher at the recent 
R.H.S. meeting at Olympia. It was unnamed, and after looking the matter 
up I believe it to be Epidendrum Lambda, Linden & Rchb. f. The 
species was described as long ago as 1854 (Bonplandia, i. p. 281), from 
dried materials collected by Wagener in forests in the province of Ocana, 
at 6,000 to 7,000 feet altitude. It was said to be allied to E. fragans, 
Swartz, but to differ in having a cordate-triangular acute lip, with three 
velvety lines at the base. The perianth was described as yellowish 
(‘ perigonium flaveolum’’), with some radiating violet lines on the lip, 
which were forked at the apex, recalling the Greek letter Lambda, hence 
the name. A single flower was sent by Reichenbach to Lindley, which is 
preserved in the latter’s Herbarium, and it agrees so well with those of the 
‘plant exhibited that I think it must represent the same species. But for 
the colour, the living plant might have passed as a form of E. fragrans, but 
in this respect it is quite distinct. I should describe the sepals and petals 
of the plant seen as light salmon-colour, with greenish tips to the former, 
while the lip is cream-yellow with violet lines: The crest is distinctly 
velvety. Nothing further seems to be known about E. Lambda. R.A.R. 
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Macopes Cominsui:—This is a handsome Solomon Island species of 
the Ancectochilus group which was collected at San Cristoval by the Rev. 
R. B. Comins, who described it as a low plant, very succulent, handsome, 
leaves red and green, and gave the native name as “‘ Kanora.” It was 
thought to constitute a new genus, and was described under the name of 
Pseudomacodes Cominsii (Rolfe in Kew Bull., 1892, pp. 127, 128), as it was- 
thought to differ from Macodes in possessing a single thin plate-like ap- 
pendage in front of the column. The flowers, however, were in rather poor 
‘condition. It has since been collected in the same locality by Mr. C. M. 
* Woodford, and proves to have a. pair of parallel plates on the column, as 
in Macodes, to which it must be referred. Mr. Woodford remarks that 
living plants were sent to England by Micholitz, but we have not yet met 
with them in cultivation. R.A.R. 
