188 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JUNE, 1907. 
Disa BAKERI, Rolfe.—A British East African Orchid, described from i 
‘dried specimens collected by G. Sandbach Taylor at Kinagop Hill and 
Mau, at 2,400 to 3,000 m. altitude. It is allied to D. Deckenii, Rchb. f, 
cand has pink flowers.—l.c. p. 132. 
BULBOPHYLLUM FUSCOPURPUREUM. 
Tuis remarkable South Indian Bulbophyllum has just flowered with Mr. 
James O’Brien, Harrow-on-the-Hill, it having been imported with Ccelogyne 
corrugata. It was described and figured by Wight, in 1852 (Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. 
v. p. 6, t. 1651), from materials collected by Mr. Jerdon, the locality being 
given as “ Neilgherries, on trees and rocks along the banks of the Kartairy 
river, below Kaitie, and also below Nedawuttim onthe north-western slopes.” 
It does not appear to have been collected again until now. It belongs to the 
-small group of species characterised by having a pair of curved basal side 
-lobes to the lip, but is markedly different from B. Careyanum, B. cupreum, 
and their allies in its very large flowers, and the tilament-like extensicn of 
the petals, which are clavate at the apex, and so delicate as to wave about 
in a slight breeze. The plant has a very stout woody rhizome, which bears 
tetragonal yellowish one-leaved pseudobulbs, 1-1} inches apart. The leaves 
are shortly petioled, oblong, about 3-4 inches long. The scapes are about 
‘six inches long, and bear six or seven flowers at the apex, these being over 
-an inch across their broadest diameter, and the colour dull reddish brown, 
the lip being rather darker than the rest of the flower. The petals are about 
half an inch long and broadly triangular at the base. Mr. O’Brien remarks 
that the buds remain for some time concealed behind the rather large bracts, 
but afterwards the pedicels elongate and the flowers appear well extended. 
—R.A.R 
PHAIUS HYBRIDS. 
AmonG the triumphs of the hybridist’s art the beautiful hybrid Phaius 
occupy a foremost place, as has been frequently demonstrated, in which © 
‘connection everyone will think of the beautiful series raised in the collection 
of Norman C. Cookson, Esq., Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne, of which an 
-account is given on another page. Five beautiful flowers have been sent 
‘by Mr. Chapman:—Phaius x Harold is a fine thing, derived from 
P. Wallichii Sanderianus ? and P. X Norman ¢, and having coppery 
yellow sepals and petals much like the former in shape; but the lip much 
more open, and the spur much shorter. The colour is reddish brown, with 
‘darker veins, which alternate with paler ones towards the base, and a deep 
yellow central band on the disc. P. xX Phcebe is a very beautiful thing, 
and is descended from the same seed parent crossed with P. Humblotil- 
It is most like the latter in shape, and has salmon-pink sepals and petals, 
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