360 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (DECEMBER, 1910 
NEOLAUCHEA PULCHELLA. 
A PLANT of this rare and interesting little Orchid has just flowered at the 
Royal Botanic Garden, Glasnevin. It originally appeared in the collection 
of Prince Johann Liechtenstein, of Eisgrub, and was described by Dr. 
Kranzlin in 1897 (Bull. Herb. Boiss., v. p. 110), being dedicated to Mr. W. 
Lauche, who is in charge of the Collection. lts habitat is not recorded. 
It is a tiny plant, about three inches high, with a creeping rhizome, and 
ovoid, somewhat distant pseudobulbs, about three lines long, terminated by 
a single slender terete leaf. The scapes are one-flowered, and about as 
long as the leaves, the flowers being five lines long, and bright purple, 
somewhat resembling those of Hartwegia purpurea, Lindl., in colour. It is, 
indeed, allied to the latter, and still more so to the remarkable Brazilian 
Isabelia virginalis, Rodr. (Gen. et Sp. Orch. Nov. i. p 76, Frontispiece), 
which it closely resembles, both in habit and floral structure, though the 
bulbs are more distant, and the fibrous remains of the sheaths much less 
copious. In both genera the united base of the lateral sepals and the foot 
of the column form a sac-shaped mentum, and both have eight pollinia, 
united by very slender filiform caudicles. They must be placed next to ° 
Hartwegia in the systematic arrangement. In Neolauchea the sepals and 
petals are subconnivent, and the lip is erect, with two sharply reflexed 
angles at the base. The plant was purchased at the recent sale of the 
Clifton Collection. It would be interesting to know something more about 
its history, though from its affinity it is safe to describe it as Tropical 
American. It will probably succeed in a light position in the Cattleya 
or Intermediate house. R. A. ROLFE. 
WarRREA HOOKERIANA.—A striking species of Warrea has flowered out 
of the Peruvian importations of Messrs. Sander & Sons, which I am unable 
to distinguish from the plant described by Reichenbach in 1856 under the 
name of Phaius Hookerianus (Bonplandia, iv. p. 328). The latter was based 
upon a dried specimen collected by Matthews at Pangoa, Peru, growing in 
moist shade. Reichenbach afterwards detected the error of calling it a 
Phaius, but then thought the plant might be Warrea bidentata, Lindl. He 
also thought that a plant in his Herbarium, collected at Moyobamba, was 
W. bidentata (Gard. Chron., 1868, i. p. 105), but it is much more likely to 
be the one now under notice, for W. bidentata is not otherwise known from 
Peru. The flowers of W. Hookeriana are rather larger than those of 
W. bidentata, but are very similar in colour, being of a peculiar shade of 
reddish purple, rather paler in the centre. The flowers are borne in erect 
scapes, and are somewhat globose in shape. The appearance of the species 
in cultivation is interesting. R.A.R. 
