THE ORCHID REVIEW. 243 
t. 283), is said to have much more succulent, stiffer leaves, always of a 
somewhat reddish colour, especially in the cold weather, and both leaves 
and flowers stand erect. It never extends further eastwards than the 
Goalpara district in Lower Assam, and it is suggested that this plant is 
quite distinct from A. multiflorum. 
Higher up the Brahmaputra Valley the preceding is replaced by the 
allied A. Fieldingii, Lodd., which is said to be much scarcer and handsomer, 
and grows more isolated, while both the forms referred to A. multiflorum 
are frequently crowded, sometimes hundreds of plants on one tree, and on 
the old mango trees at Dhubri Station, in Lower Assam, Mr. Mann has 
seen perhaps a thousand plants on one tree of the second form of A. multi- 
florum mentioned. 
On looking the matter up I find that the name A. affine belongs chiefly 
to the western form mentioned, and should the two prove as constantly 
distinct as the above notes suggest, the name may have to be restored, 
though at present it is treated as synonymous with A. multiflorum. A. 
affine, Wallich, first appeared about 1828, as the name of a species said to 
grow in Silhet and Nepal, but without any description (Wall. Cat., n. 7316), 
and this latter was only furnished by Lindley in 1833 (Gen. & Sp. Orch. Pl. 
p. 239), where the same two habitats are repeated. Then a fine figure was 
given by the latter author (Sert. Orch., t. 15), and the name A. multiflorum, 
Roxb., is given as a synonym. Wallich’s plant is said to have been met 
with on the southern mountains of Nepal, near Sheopore. The figure was 
prepared from a drawing in the possession of the East India Company, 
assisted by dried specimens, and it is added that the species had also 
flowered in the collection of Messrs. Loddiges. This figure represents the 
erect Nepal plant, though Roxburgh’s habitat and name are included in the 
text. This early confusion may be the cause of the suggested mistake in 
the Botanical Magazine record above alluded to, and it may have been this 
which led Berkeley to consider the western form as probably the type of 
A. multiflorum, which we have just seen is not the case. There appears 
also to have been some confusion with the original dried specimens of A. 
affine. At all events Wallich’s Nepal sheet so labelled at Kew contains 
also specimens of A. odoratum and Rhynchostylis retusa, though 
fortunately Lindley’s description and figure show which was the true plant. 
A. roseum, Lindl. (Paxt. Fl. Gard., ii., p. 109, t- 60) was described and 
figured from a plant which flowered with Messrs. Loddiges. Its exact origin 
was not stated, but it appears to represent the western form, and was after- 
wards made a variety of A. affine. 
A. Lobbii (I/l. Hort., 1868, t. 559) was introduced from Moulmein, by 
Thomas Lobb, who sent it to Messrs. Veitch in 1851, and is the Burmese 
representative of A. multiflorum. It has longer, somewhat branched 
