[January, 1906. THE ORCHID REVIEW. 27 
quarter of this area. The route the Envoy would take to Punakha, the 
Bhotanese capital, would be along and through the north-western portion of 
that country, and their time, &c., being fairly limited, their return no doubt 
would be much along the same route, with digressions north and south. 
North of the route I should have very little hope pene the be ge 
for the higher altitudes n the 
Mountains, ranging from 9,000 to 16,000 feet, would be fai too cold to hope 
for success here, but south of the route, where the valleys range from 4,000 
to 7,000 or 8,000 feet, and running down to the Brahmaputra, here, in the 
south-western half, and probably all along the southern portion of Bhotan 
till we come to near Nowgong, where we originally started, I feel convinced 
is the native home of our long lost and now rediscovered Orchid, C. 
Fairrieanum. 
Henry THORP. 
[The above was received before our correspondent could have seen the 
note reproduced at page 354. It is now pretty clear where the rediscovered 
plants came from, but it would be rash to assume that it grows in only a 
single locality. We have now two independent records from Assam and 
two from Bhotan. Can anyone connect Captain Tronson with the 
Bhotanese troubles mentioned by our correspondent? There is no doubt 
about his having sent plants to Calcutta in 1861, and the record he gave: 
was Assam.—Ep.] 
ORCHIDS AT GLASNEVIN, 
“You must see Vanda Lowii,” was what tempted us from the trees, and 
that lovely stretch away down by the Tolka river where one could “‘ wander 
and wander away with Nature, the dear old nurse.” Yet, Vanda, or 
Arachnanthe Lowii, is a plant to be looked at, and to be talked about, too, 
with one long drooping tail-like spike measuring 8ft., slung up over a tie- . 
rod of the roof, and again depending to the bed on which the plant stands. 
Other flower spikes were in course of development, but this one was 
studded with its yellow flowers, heavily barred with chocolate, from top to 
bottom, save the top pair, which, according to the peculiarity of this 
species, turn to old gold with age, but become at the same time powerfully 
perfumed, a friend remarked, attracting crawlers up the soil-touching 
tails by the smell at the top. Amongst other Orchids in bloom were the 
truly regal Cypripedium Curtisii, which impressed us as being the finest 
of the genus we had yet met with; C.Charlesworthii, Burlingtonia venusta,. 
and a grand spike of Oncidium varicosum, suggestive of the finest type, 
Rogersii. The great Orchid collection impressed one by the fresh, clean, 
and luxuriantly healthy condition — Journ. Hort., 1905, ii., 548. 
