28 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JANUARY, 1910. 
sent, the plant having been collected by a friend in Bahia. The species is 
rather widely diffused. 
A richly coloured Cattleya Percivaliana is sent from the collection of 
J. J. Neale, Esq,, of Penarth, by Mr. Haddon, together with the charming 
little Odontoglossum nzevium, Dendrobium glomeratum,  Restrepia 
maculata, Masdevallia triangularis and M. Schroederiana. Two very 
diverse forms of a hybrid raised in the collection from Paphiopedilum 
hirsutissimum X nitens are also sent. They are forms of P. X Erato, and 
both show most of the hirsutissimum character. 
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BRAZILIAN ORCHIDS: SOME FURTHER NOTES. 
By J. J. KEEvixL, Santos, S. Brazil. 
SEVERAL “popular” articles on Orchids have appeared lately in various 
magazines. One of the keynotes in these has been the extreme dangers 
attendant on Orchid collecting, and gruesome details of lives lost by starva- 
tion, encounters with savages, &c., are given. 
This, fortunately, does not apply to the region from which I write. It 
can be reached in nineteen days comfortable travel on a Royal Mail steamer 
from Southampton and twenty minutes on a train at this end. A pains- 
taking search on the very trees which edge this short railway will reveal 
Cattleya Leopoldi, C. intermedia, Miltenia spectabilis and a score of other 
species. At the terminus, a comfortable hotel faces the Atlantic and Africa, 
and attempts to vie with Monte Carlo with a casino, band, &c. A former 
British Consul, who resided here for eleven years, often declared to me that 
Dante must have had the surrounding scene in view when describing 
Paraiso. Some residents, however, regard this as hyperbole. 
_ Ona hill 200 yards from the back of the hotel, Oncidium sarcodes, and 
other Orchids which dislike the sea level, will be easily found. If collecting 
is the only object, long and arduous trips are not necessary. For years I 
wandered leagues for Lelia purpurata; the first plant to reward me was 
thirty odd miles away. A week ago, a hitherto despised wood, within a 
stone’s throw of my own door, yielded them to me. 
Since the publication of my ‘‘ Notes ” in the April number of the Orchid 
Review (pp. 97-99) I have enjoyed at least twenty Orchid hunts, which have 
added some 500 excellent plants to my own and double that number tu the 
collections of friends. 
The worst danger encountered was due to the ingenuity of a local 
sportsman (?).. Tired of struggling through the woods in search of sparse 
game, he concealed his gun beneath the undergrowth, set the triggers at 
featherweight, attached thereto two strings, and stretched them across the 
track of a cotia (a small rodent). He then retired to a distance to await 
events. Shortly we returned that way, laden with Stanhopea insignis, &c. 
