THE ORCHID REVIEW. 295 
RODRIGUEZIA PUBESCENS. 
Tue history of this very handsome species, together with a figure of a very 
beautiful specimen from the collection of R. Brooman White, Esq., of 
Arddarroch, were given at page 337 of our first volume. The following 
interesting note by Mr. E. O. Orpet, South Lancaster, U.S.A., appears in 
Garden and Forest for August 26th (p. 348) :— 
“This is one of the most beautiful of Orchids, considering the wealth of 
bloom produced from comparatively small plants; the sprays are long, 
arching gracefully, and the flowers are of the purest white, with a trace of 
yellow on the lip. This plant is not new, it having been well known at the 
time of its introduction, just fifty years ago, but like many other Orchids, 
as, for example, Cattleya labiata, it became scarce after a time, and not 
until the re-discovery of the Cattleya did this Rodriguezia appear again. 
Both Orchids come from the same part of Brazil, Pernambuco. Our plant, 
in a small pan, had twelve flower-spikes, and it was exceedingly pretty when 
in bloom, but owing, probably, to the intense heat at the time, and the 
amount of moisture present in the atmosphere, the flowers only lasted a few 
days. They seem to be self-fertilising, as a number of the caps containing 
the pollen were found on the bench under the plant, some at quite a 
distance, as though they were forced off by some mechanical means, such 
as those developed in Catasetum and other genera, and a day or two later 
many of the seed-vessels began to swell. The flowers were evidently 
impregnated without artificial aid, not common among Orchids, though there 
It would be interesting to learn if 
are well-known exceptions to the rule. 
as I can 
other cultivators have had the same experience with this Rodriguezia, 
find no record of this in any work to which I have access. We find it best 
grown in a pan or other open receptacle suspended in the warmest house 
the roots are slender, and seem to avoid the compost of living moss as much 
as possible, preferring to grow out and breathe in the moisture in the 
It was tried among the Cattleyas for a time, for we thought 
as it is found growing with them, but some 
It evidently was not warm 
armest house, where it has 
like many more plants, it 
atmosphere. 
this ought to be the place for it, 
of the young growths soon began to decay. 
enough there, so it was taken back to the w 
Prospered. When re-introduced into cultivation, n ; 
was thought to be new, and was named afresh R. Lindeni, but it was 
speedily located in published descriptions of the earlier part of the century, 
and will henceforth, no doubt, be often seen in gardens.” 
We do not remember to have observed that the flowers of this species 
are self-fertilising, and should consider the occurrence as exceptional. 
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