370 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [DECEMBER, IQI0-- 
BULBOPHYLLUM MINIATUM AND B. KINDTIANUM. 
SoME years ago a very interesting Bulbophyllum was exhibited at a meeting. 
of the R.H.S. under the name of B. miniatum. It was said to be a native 
of the Congo, and had a strongly fringed white lip, recalling the Indian B. 
tremulum (O.R., xii. p. 118). It was afterwards figured (Journ. Roy. Hort. 
Soc., xxxiii. p. 380, fig. 53), from a plant which flowered in the Royal 
Botanic Garden, Glasnevin, in August, 1903. It never seems to have 
been described, and how it obtained its specific name remains a mystery, 
for the flowers are not vermilion-coloured. Shortly afterwards a Bulbophy!l- 
lum from the Congo was described by De Wildeman, under the name of 
B. Kindtianum (Not. Pl. Util. Congo, p. 309), which is so closely similar 
that I think it may represent the one previously mentioned. It was: 
dedicated to M. Kindt, Chef de Culture of the Jardin Colonial, Laeken, to 
whom living plants were sent by M. Laurent. It is said to have been found 
at the River Loliva, in the Congo State, in July, 1903, It was afterwards 
figured from a photograph (De Wildem. in Mission Lawurent., p. 53, t- 26). 
The flowers shown in the two figures are much alike, but beyond this 
materials are not available for comparison. In B. Kindtianum the hairs of. 
the lip are said to be violet-rose, and in B. miniatum white, and the question 
remains whether they represent forms of the same or two closely allied. 
species. It seems desirable to have the matter cleared up. The lip of B. 
miniatum, Mr. F. W. Moore remarks, is extremely vibratile, so much so- 
that when the photograph was being taken the chimney of the room had to- 
be stopped up with paper, as the draught from it kept the lips continually 
moving. The well-known B. barbigerum, Lindl., belongs to the same- 
group, but has much shorter prostrate scapes, and larger flowers, while the 
hairs are clavate at the apex. There are several other African species. 
which have hairy lips, though none quite so striking as those above- 
mentioned. 
ORCHIDS FROM PENARTH. : 
A BEAUTIFUL series of flowers has been sent from the collection of J. J.- 
Neale, Esq., Penarth, by Mr. Haddon, who remarks that they have had. 
a splendid show this autumn, and that Dendrobium Phalenopsis has done 
very well. One of these is a beautiful spike of sixteen flowers, while 
flowers of three other forms show the usual variation, and one of them has. 
a thickened crenulate purple ridge up the middle of the petals, though not 
bearing blackish papillz like the ridges on the lip. Epidendrum vitellinum. 
has a spike of seventeen brilliant flowers. Oncidium is represented by O.. 
crispum, préetextum, varicosum, tigrinum, and ornithorrhynchum, and. 
Odontoglossum by O. grande, Uroskinneri, Harryanum and _tripudians.- 
