THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
[No. 103. 
Vou. 1X.) JULY: tgot. 
DIES ORCHIDIANI. 
OnE of my correspondents seems to think that I am interested in ‘“ extra- 
ordinary Orchids,’ and obligingly sends me a newspaper cutting, accom- 
panied by a sketch, which he thinks has fully earned the title. I think so, 
too, but my readers may prefer to judge for themselves, so let me repro- 
duce the story, which is perhaps graphic enough to do without the sketch. 
The latter I am sorry to say was not prepared from a photograph, and our 
Editor I believe has a weakness for such things—a fact which the writer of 
the story will perhaps bear in mind another time. I may also add that I 
do not follow all the details, but then only the cinematograph would do 
justice to such a subject. Silence, please, for the story. 
‘ EXTRAORDINARY ORCHID, 
LETS DOWN A PIPE TO DRINK. 
‘‘ What is probably the most extraordinary plant ever discovered has 
now been found by E. A. Suverkrop, of Philadelphia, who, during trips 
to South America, has for some years been contributing to the collection of 
his friend, Professor N. E. Brown, of the Herbarium, Kew Gardens, 
London. The amazing plant which Mr. Suverkrop has now found is an 
Orchid which takes a drink whenever it feels thirsty by letting down a tube 
into the water, the tube, when not in use, being coiled up on top of the 
plant. 
*© ONE HOT AFTERNOON. 
“One hot afternoon,” says Mr. Suverkrop, “I sat down under some 
brushwood at the side of a lagoon on the Rio dela Plata. Near at hand 
was a forest of dead, shorn trees, which had actually been choked to death 
by Orchids and climbing cacti. In front of me, and stretching over the 
