FEBRUARY, 1907. | THE ORCHID REVIEW. 37 
locality towards a little village, of which the name escapes me, situated 
about midway between La Vega and Villeta, at which latter place 
©. crispum apparently entirely disappears. The type collected in this 
region is undoubtedly the most beautiful which exists; its robustness, the 
great beauty, and the texture of the flowers, placing it in the first rank. 
Unfortunately, these mountains do not extend far, and the unscrupulous 
manner in which they have been exploited during the last few years has 
rendered it very difficult to find even a few hundred plants a year there. 
The second district is the principal one, and comprises the villages of 
Lupata, Vergara, San Cayetano, and Veraguas, and having Pacho for centre. 
At the time of Funck and Schlim, O. crispum abounded here in the woods, 
which then descended to the foot of the mountains, even as far as the 
village of Pacho. At the present time, the majority of the forests which 
surrounded this smiling spot have been cut down to make room for pasture 
lands or for maize or tobacco plantations. Even in 1889, O. crispum, in 
the immediate vicinity of Pacho, had become extremely rare, and, in order 
to procure it, it was necessary for the ‘“ parasitoros” to penetrate farther 
ito the mountains and search round the other villages situated at a higher 
altitude. The natives, instead of returning every night with their spoils, 
as at the time when the species grew in abundance near the village, were 
obliged to carry provisions for a week. They would set out on the search 
for plants on a Monday or Tuesday, not returning until the Saturday 
following, with the load that they had been able to collect. Besides the real 
beauty of the flower, both in shape and texture, there is another charac- 
teristic distinctive of the Pacho type, and that is, that as a general rule, the 
flower stalk, which is slightly curved, carries its flowers touching each other 
in two parallel lines. This gives a most beautiful aspect to the plant. 
I have rarely observed this feature in plants coming from the forest regions 
farther to the North. Here the flower stalks are longer and the flowers 
more distant from each other. 
In the two districts of the Pacho region, O. crispum generally grows in 
company with those two most widely diffused species, O. gloriosum and O. 
Lindleyanum. However, in the mountains of Lupata I have collected 
©. x Wilckeanum, var. Mme. Florent Claes, and I once saw, at the house 
of a resident of Pacho, several fine forms of the same hybrid, which had 
been found near the village. This seems to point to the existence of O. 
luteopurpureum in this district. Still, 1 must admit that I have never met 
with a plant of it here. Among the other species found, I must mention 
a single plant of O. Hunnewellianum found in the mountains of San 
Cayetano, and O. Wallisii, which grows in moderate quantity in one part 
of the mountains stretching from Pacho in the direction of Ubaté. 
(To be concluded.) 
