356 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
The November number of the Kew Bulletin contains four Decades 
(17—20) of new Orchids, all from China or adjacent Islands. The majority 
are from dried specimens, but the following are in cultivation:—Den- | 
hilus hai is, from 
drobium hainanense, Eria cespitosa, and S 
Hainan; Nephelaphyllum cristatum, from Hongkong; and  Physurus 
chinensis, from South China. Listera grandifl is int ing as the 
largest-flowered species in the genus, and S lab hai is a new 
species of the same section as S. giganteum and S. violaceum. 
A movement is on foot to obtain coloured drawings for future reference 
of the Orchids certificated by the Royal Horticultural Society. The Orchid 
Committee on October 27th last decided to memorialise the Council on the 
subject, and the latter view the matter with favour, and have asked to be 
supplied with a proposal in definite form as to details and probable cost. 
We believe that it was again before the Committee on November 24th. 
DENDROBIUM SPECTABILE. 
Tuis is a remarkably distinct and handsome Dendrobium, a native of New 
Guinea and the Solomon Islands, which has been known to science for 
nearly half-a-century, and which would be a notable addition to our 
collections if it could be introduced alive. It is interesting to record that 
Sir Trevor Lawrence has received a plant from Malaita, one of the Solomon 
Islands, but unfortunately it has been four months en route, and it is feared 
is too far gone to recover. A coloured sketch and dried flower sent with it 
enable it to be identified. It belongs to the group of D. macrophyllum, 
A-Rich., and D. atropurpureum, Rolfe, but is larger and more handsome, 
and when first described was thought to represent a new genus, being 
described by Blume, in 1848, under the name of Latourea spectabilis 
(Rumphia, IV., p. 41, t. 195, fig. 1, and t. 199, fig. C), mainly from a 
drawing made in New Guinea by M. Latour-Leschenault, naturalist to 
Baudin’s Expedition, which, like that of the remarkable Bulbophyllum 
grandiflorum made at the same time, has proved remarkably accurate. 
Miquel aft ds transferred it to Dendrobi (D. spectabile, Mig. Fl. 
Ned. Ind., III., p. 645). A plant obtained from the Solomon Islands 
flowered at the Sydney Botanic Garden in 1884, when Sir F. Mueller 
wrote a note in the Victorian Naturalist (I., p. 51). In October, 1890, 
the Rev. R. B. Comins collected specimens at San Cristoval, Solomon 
Islands, which I described as Dendrobium tigrinum (Annals of Bot., V., P- 
507), completely overlooking Latourea, which is doubtfully retained as a 
distinct genus in the Genera Plantarum. The plant has clavate pseudobulbs 
nearly a foot long, with about four or five terminal leaves, and erect racemes 
of about 20 to 25 flowers, with acuminate sepals and petals, 14 inches long, 
