ad THE ORCHID REVIEW. [May, 1907. 
rare C. labiata alba varieties, numbering some sixty plants, including — 
Daphne, Mrs. E. Ashworth, Amesiana, La Viérge, alba (in two forms), Lady 
Duff, reedleyensis, Cooksoniz, Gilmouri, Queen Maud, King of Greece,. 
The Pearl, lilacina, F. W. Ashton, glauca, Mr. G. H. Miiller, G. G. 
Whitelegge, R. I. Measures, Laura, Pride of Southgate, Etona, Sandere, 
&c., a fairly formidable list. Among the choice Lelia purpurata were 
bella, Daviesiana, Duckworthii, Annie Louise, Lowiz, Littleana, and the 
two famous albino varieties Lewisii and Ashtonie. There were several 
plants of C. Percivaliana “ Little Gem,” which has white sepals and petals. 
and lilac on front of the lip. The white varieties of C. Mossiz occupied 
twelve feet of staging space. C. gigas Frau Melanie Beyrodt, the famous 
albino which this firm has placed in nearly all the good Cattleya collections 
in Europe, is represented by two plants. This plant has a wonderful con- 
stitution, and simply delights in being cut up. To illustrate this, a leading 
bulb which had been cut off before last growing season made two growths 
~ nearly equal to itself in size. Besides these mentioned were many hybrids, 
C. Dowiana Rosita, C. Mendelii Mercury, a large lot of choice C. 
Schroedere, and a multitude of good things whose names I cannot find 
room for. Three other houses of Cattleyas—Mendelii, Percivaliana, fine spec- 
imens, Mossiz, &c., were visited after this, but I have already overstepped 
my space. Some idea of the extent of this place can be formed when it is 
known that the houses are mostly 100 and 150 feet long, a few being 80 feet. 
The treatment of the Orchids can best be described as particularly cool 
and airy. I did not enter a house which felt in any way hot or oppressive, 
the Cattleya houses being surprisingly cool ; and with the happy results of 
this treatment before my eyes, Mr. E. V. Low’s remark that more Orchids. 
were injured by too much heat and too much water than by any other means 
drove home conviction. 
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PHALANOPSIS ROSENSTROMII. 
Ir is interesting to find a Phalenopsis recorded from North-east Queens- — 
land. Mr. F. M. Bailey has just described the above (Queensl. A gric. Journ. 
xvii. p. 231), as a new species, collected by Rosenstrom, “on trees, high 
from the ground, Daintree River.” I do not, however, see by what 
characters it is to be separated from the well-known P. amabilis, Blume, 
which is known to extend eastwards to Timor, Amboyna and Ke island- 
It is described as bearing a panicle composed of racemose branches of about 
10 inches long, each with about eight to ten showy white flowers, here and 
there stained with yellow; the petals about 13 lines broad; and the lip 
three-lobed, with a two-horned callosity at the base; lateral lobes curved 
over the base of the segment; middle lobe somewhat strap-shaped, an 
bearing at its apex two twisted cirrhi. R. A. Ree 
