230 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
J. Lugard to the Calcutta Botanic Garden, but in the uncongenial climate 
the latter soon died. Lieut. J. B. Chatterton afterwards sent some plants, 
which were immediately transferred to the more congenial climate of the 
Sikkim Cinchona Plantations, where they flowered. These facts should be 
borne in mind by those who secure plants. Two plants only were pre- 
viously known, the original one in the collection of M. A. Van Imschoot, 
and another in that of E. H. Woodall, Esq., which received an Award of © 
Merit last year. The flowers have been compared toa brilliantly-coloured oe 
butterfly with expanded wings. It appears to be very floriferous, and 
owing to its dwarf habit and brilliant crimson-scarlet flowers, ought to be 
come popular. The great drawback to the extended culture of the species 
of this handsome genus has been their tall climbing habit, and the fact that 
they seldom flower before reaching a considerable size, but these peculiar 
ities are not found in the present species. A Renanthera with the habit of 
Vanda ceerulea should be an acquisition. 
R. Age 
AN ORCHID AT HOME. 
A HANDSOME Orchid, which grows on Mount Pena Blanca, in Nicaragua, 
is described in the following note from Belt’s Naturalist in Nicaragua 
(p. 142), though what it is we cannot imagine, and it would be vey 
interesting to find out its name. We do not know anything like it m 
cultivation. : 
“The rock, on the southern and most perpendicular side, weathers toe 
whitish colour, and is called Pena Blanca, meaning the white peak. It 
visible from some points on the savannahs. During the summer months us 
is, onthe northern side, covered with a caulescent Orchid (Ornitho- 
thynchos) that has not been found anywhere else in the neighbourhood ; 
and the natives, who are very fond of flowers, inheriting the taste from 
their Indian ancestors, at this time, often, on Sundays, go up to it and bring 
down large quantities of the blossom. Its colour, when it first opens ee 
scarlet and yellow. Among it grows a crimson Macleania. Once when I 
made an ascent, in March, these flowers were in perfection, and in great : 
abundance, and the northern face of the rock was completely covered with f 
them. When I emerged from the gloomy forest, the sun was shining — 
brightly on it, and the combination of scarlet, crimson, and Y' low 
made a perfect blaze of colour, approaching more nearly 0 * 
RE of flames and fire than anything else T have seen in the 
world.” 
