322 THE ORCHID REVIEW, 
Further particulars of the remarkable Eulophiella Peetersiana are 
coming to hand. An account of its native country was given at page 258, 
and we now learn that it grows upon Pandanus stems, and when in flower it 
forms an imposing spectacle. 
A dense fog, charged with the usual products of combustion, made its 
appearance in the London district during the latter part of October, lasting 
for several days, and doing a great amount of damage to Orchid flowers 
and buds. In the Streatham district they seem to have been particularly 
severe. R, H. Measures, Esq., writes from The Woodlands: —‘“‘In one 
house we lost 228 Cattleya spikes, and in another 260 leaves of 
Cypripedium insigne. In some cases plants looked as though they had been 
sprayed with paraffin and soot. The brass handles of the doors were as 
though they had been bronzed over. It is certainly the most severe fog we 
have as yet experienced.” 
The July, August and September numbers of the Dictionnaire des 
Orchidées have reached us since our last issue, and among the plants figured 
we find the beautiful Comparettia macroplectron, Cochlioda Noetzliana, 
Cymbidium Lowianum concolor, Masdevallia leontoglossa, Oncidium 
carthaginense and O. leucochilum, Renanthera matutina, Phalenopsis 
sumatrana and Mannii, Vanda Parishii and its variety Marriottiana, &c. 
It is interesting to note that another hybrid Calanthe has been raised 
between the evergreen and deciduous sections of the genus, this time by 
Mr. J. H. Lane, gardener to H. J. Elwes, Esq., of Colesborne Park, 
Gloucestershire. It was obtained by crossing C. x Veitchii with the | 
pollen of the Japanese form of C. veratrifolia, and has white flowers with 
a yellow crest, much resembling those of C. x albata (ante, v., p: 10), of 
which it is evidently a variety. 
HABITATS OF INDIAN CYPRIPEDIUMS. 
RESPECTING your notes as to Cypripedium xX Leeanum as a natural hybrid 
(page 310), you will be interested to know that I have one that came up ina 
clump of C. insigne out of one of Messrs. Sander’s importations, said to 
have come from the Himalayan Mountains. At first I thought that it might 
be a stray seedling, but on comparison I find that the foliage and flower are 
quite distinct from any that I have raised. I have also another plant which 
has not yet flowered in another batch from Messrs. Sander’s importations, 
but which from the foliage is either C. x Leeanum or C. Spicerianum. 
W. M. APPLETON. 
Weston-super-mare. 
