1go THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JUNE, 1910. 
VANDA CCERULEA. 
Tuis beautiful Orchid often proves disappointing to cultivators, either from 
a difficulty of knowing how to treat it or of supplying the proper conditions. 
Lieut.-Col. Rippon, F.R.H.S., however, gives the following interesting 
information concerning it. Writing from Kala, in the South Shan States, 
he says: ‘‘ Vanda cerulea grows here on several species of trees from ten to 
forty feet above the ground. Asa general rule the rainfall averages about 
forty-five inches and falls from the middle of April to the end of September 
fairly regularly. Some heavy showers come in October, and, generally, a 
wet spell of a few days occurs in either November or December. It flowers 
from the end of July to late in September. It seeds freely, and likes its 
roots to be in the shade, while the flower spike frequently finds its way 
outside the foliage of the tree where there is a gap. Too much shade 
makes the flowers very pale. The roots grow to two feet or more in length 
and adhere closely to the bark of the trees. It does not appear to mind 
whether the wood is dead or not. I think some of these fleshy-rooted 
Orchids suffer at home from their roots being confined, and (generally) kept 
wet. Out here, tied to a bit of the trunk of a tree or thick branch, they 
grow to perfection. This year I had a dead branch about three feet six 
inches long with fourteen sprays out at one time. This, of course, is 
exceptional, and is the best I have ever seen. When not flowering the 
branch is fastened up perpendicularly, or nearly so, so that the sprays 
pointing upwards are shown off well when brought inside the house.—Jowrn. 
Roy. Hort. Soc., xxxv. p. 397. 
ORCHIDS IN SEASON. 
A FLOWER of the striking Odontoglossum crispum Mrs. Wm. Thompson is 
sent from the collection of W. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, Stone 
(gr. Mr. Stevens). It has rather elongated sepals and petals, and has the 
curious character that the cluster of red-purple blotches on the lower two- 
thirds of the sepals and petals are distinctly elongated, or more or less con- 
fluent into elongated bands, instead of roundish blotches. There are many 
small round spots on the lip. The plant has flowered well this year. 
A light-coloured form of the striking Catasetum fimbriatum is sent from 
the collection of Mrs. T. Fielden, Grimston Park, Tadcaster, by Mr. Bound. 
The spike bears twelve flowers, and one of them is borne on a short side 
branch at the base, an unusual character in Catasetum. 
Dried flowers and a sketch of the curious Dendrobium crumenatum are 
sent by Dr. J. F. Shafer, Pittsburg, Pa., U.S.A. The plant is said to have 
come from the Philippines a year ago, and to flower freely on the old and 
new bulbs. The flowers are white, with a pale yellow band running down 
