326 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [Novemper, 1907. 
meuntains, so we can reasonably expect that no great novelties are in 
store for us here.” 
Cattleya Eldorado is found in quantity along the northern banks of the 
Amazon, beginning at Manaos, also along the Rio Negro; C. superba is 
also found there. This Cattleya also occurs in several other localities, such 
as on the Cazanare, Rio Meta, Orinoco, and even south of the Amazon, 
while C. Eldorada does not cross the Amazon sonthward. 
In conclusion, Mr. Lager thinks the prospects for future Orchid collecting 
are not bright, the constant hunting for these plants during the last few 
years having led a number of natives to embark in the business, which, 
though not in itself wrong, is done in many instances by those who have no 
knowledge of the business, and last year alone several hundred boxes 
reached New York, the plants in which, through careless handling, were 
ruined completely, a condition of things that does more harm in one year 
than a collector would do in ten. 
HABITAT OF ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM. 
Unper the title of “ Variations in Odontoglossum crispum ” two articles 
from the Gardeners’ Chronicle, written respectively by Mr. de Barri Crawshay 
and M. A. Poirier, were reproduced in the pages of the Orchid Review (xiv- 
pp- 193—196 and xv. pp. 5—7), the latter being a reply to the former. Again, 
under the title of “ Habitat of Odontoglossum crispum” M. F. Claes deals 
with the same subject (O.R. xv. pp. 36, 37 and 79, 80). Anyone who had 
read all those articles carefully would have found himself in somewhat of a 
quandary, for while M. Poirier disagreed in no half-hearted fashion with 
Mr. Crawshay, M. Claes did not support M. Poirier. In view of these 
conflicting statements, therefore, I am very glad to be able to give readers 
of the Orchid Review the benefit of M. Louis Forget’s views. M. Forget is 
too well known as an experienced and successful collector to need any 
introduction, and he has been in recent years among Odontoglossum crispum- 
He had read all the matter referred to before I met him recently, when he 
was in England, and had no hesitation in giving corroborative support to 
M. Poirier, only he went a step further in simplification. 
M. Forget says there is but one region for good crispums, and it extends 
from the Savannah plains northwards right to Simatoea (I have been unable 
to find this name on my map), where a few O. Pescatorei have already beeD 
found mixed with crispum, and in this region no O. luteopurpureum grows 
And there is but one region for bad crispums—those with “ starry” flowers, 
thousands of which have been imported as good, and this region extends for 
hundreds of miles southwards from the Savannah, and the plants from here 
are known as the Fusagasuga type. It is with these that O. luteopurpureu 
grows. 
