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that permanent position in collections to which its beauty entitles it, 
probably on-account of the difficulty of bringing it safely through the 
resting season. If this difficulty can be surmounted it ought to be more 
widely cultivated, for its beauty is undoubted, and in August, 1894, it 
received a First-class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society. 
Major-General Berkeley thus speaks of it in our second volume (p. 331):— 
“T have seen whole beds of it in flower in Moulmein, and I can only 
suppose that difficulty of transport prevented collectors from bringing it 
home. . . . I have met with it both in India and Burmah, and it was 
always a great delight to come across a group of it. It is found in very 
warm, sheltered, moist places. It is too soft and succulent a plant to grow 
under any other conditions, and should do well in a shady corner in the 
stove. The flowers are not always pure white, I have found spikes of it 
with a dash of green, but all the varieties are beautiful.” It is rather 
widely diffused, being found in North and South India, South China, and 
in some of the Malay islands. It grows from two to four feet high, and 
sometimes bears as many as five flowers ; from which it will be seen that 
our figure fails to do it full justice. The remarkable fringed side lobes of 
the lip and. the long spur are well shown in the illustration. Now that 
the culture of some of these tropical Habenarias is better understood, we 
hope to meet with it more frequently in collections. 
H. miuitaris (Fig. 11) is a brilliantly-coloured species, which wa 
originally discovered in the mountains of Phu Quogq, in Cambodia, by Lad 
Godefroy Lebeuf. It was described by Reichenbach in 1878, from a GH 
specimen, under the name of Habenaria pusilla (Otia Bot. Hamb., p- 33 
Very little appears to have been known about it then, as nothing is said 
about its brilliant colours. M. A. Regnier afterwards obtained it from 
Cochin China, probably from the mountainous region of Tay-Ninh, and ia 
1886 he sent a living plant in flower to Reichenbach, who recognised i 
H. pusilla, but considering that name altogether inappropriate, he re-nal® 
the species H. militaris, in allusion to the brilliant scarlet lip, resembling * 
soldier’s jacket. The plants here represented are rather dwarf, as it offen 
attains a height of over a foot ; but it will be observed that only a few ® 
the lower flowers are expanded. It is too well known to require forthe 
description, but we may add that in October, 1893, Sir Trevor Lawrem™ : 
was awarded a Silver Flora Medal for a fine pan of it, over two feet im 
diameter, containing a number of very fine plants. The method of oat 
So successfully practised by Mr. White was given in full in our first ‘ 
(pp. 83-85), to which we refer our readers for details. : 
H. carne (Fig. 12) is a native of Perak, where it grows 0D lie 
rocks, and was sent home by Mr. C. H. Curtis, of the Forest Departmét { 
there. It flowered at Kew and with Messrs. James Veitch & 
