266 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
Elisabethe, Maxillaria nigrescens, Mormodes Lawrenceanum, and Phalzn- 
opsis Denisiana, Cogn., which is synonymous with P. Kunstleri, Hook. f. 
The June number is devoted entirely to Cypripedium, and contains C. 
Appletonianum and Mastersianum, two forms each of C. Boxallii and 
Charlesworthii, together with eight hybrids. The habitat of C. Charles- 
worthii is given as the Arracan district, but this habitat was long ago 
corrected. It is a native of the Shan States, as recorded by the discoverer, 
Mr. R. Moore, in an interesting article in these pages (ill. pp. 169-172). 
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USE OF ORCHID-BARK FOR ORNAMENT. 
THE following additional information respecting the use of Orchid-bark 
appears in the July-August number of the Kew Bulletin (pp. 138-139) :— 
‘In some ‘ Notes on Orchids in the Jungle’ (Orchid Review, 1893, vol.1., 
p- 82), the late Major-General E. S. Berkeley described the use of the 
‘fibre’ of Dendrobium secundum for making the string or ‘connector’ 
with which the aborigines of N. Andaman attach the head to the shaft of 
their arrows. The employment of Orchids for any useful purpose is rare, 
and the present seemed so exceptional that application was made to Mr. 
E. H. Man, C.S.I., deputy-superintendent of the Andamans, for specimens 
illustrating it for the Kew Museum. Mr. Man very kindly forwarded to 
Kew an interesting letter (dated December 6, 1893) from Mr. M. V. 
Portman, officer-in-charge of the Andamanese, which corrected General 
Berkeley’s account in many particulars:—‘ The connector attaching the 
head to the shaft of the ‘ Ela,’ the arrow used for shooting pig, is made of 
the fibre of Anodendron paniculatum (‘ Yolba’), and Orchid bark is never 
used in its manufacture. 
‘Orchid bark (Ra) is, however, worked into the yolba fibre binding the 
head of the fish arrow (Taulbod), and also in the head of the Ela, but as an 
ornament only, owing to its bright yellow colour. It is prepared as follows: 
The Orchid is roasted over embers, until the bark becomes of a straw 
colour, and the bark is then stripped off by a shell-knife. It is very brittle, 
owing to the baking it has received, has no toughness at any time, and is 
absolutely valueless commercially.’ 
Mr. Man has been good enough to send to Kew an interesting series of 
objects consisting of bracelets, armlets, a waist-belt, and head ornament, 
made of shells fastened to a coarse cord which is covered with the bright 
yellow skin or bark exactly corresponding with that which covers the 
pseudobulbs of Dendrobium secundum. 
In a farther letter; dated June 18, 1894, Mr. M. V. Portman says:— 
‘The Ongés of the Little Andaman Island make more use of the bark 
