33 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
should be taken out, all the dead roots cut off, and repotted in, if need 
smaller pot. This should be done at any and every season, for if a] 
loses all its roots in the compost, it rarely, if ever, does any more goo I 
that pot. The really busy season can now be considered over, but this¢ 
not mean that the Orchid grower has now nothing to do. Ther 
multitude of odd jobs always cropping up, and the routine work is a 
times with us, and will be during this and next month most exacting. 
CIRRHOPETALUM THOUARSII. 
THIs very striking species, the one upon which the genus was origir 
founded by Lindley, proves to have a remarkably wide diffusion, and 2 
plant sent from the Seychelles, which has just flowered at Kew, : 
identical with the original, a note on its history may prove interest 
especially as a similar if not identical plant has now been found 
continental Africa. The genus was founded by Lindley in 1824 (Bo 
x. sub. t. 832), the single species, C. Thouarsii, being founded on Bu 
phyllum longiflorum, Thouars (Orch. Iles A fr. t. 98), a native of Mauti 
and Madagascar. Lindley afterwards added Epidendrum umbellat 
Forst., from the Society Islands, and Zygoglossum umbellatum, Reit 
from Java (Gen. and Sp. Orch. p. 58), but the latter species is different. 
1838 he figured a plant introduced from Manila, by Cuming, under the 
name (Bot. Reg. xxiv. t. 11), and the Botanical Magazine (t. 4237) follov 
but neither represent the original plant, which does not appear to have 
introduced to cultivation until living plants were sent from Mauritius by 
W. Bewsher, Esq., of the Oriental Bank there, which flowered at Kew 
1891, and the following year, first the clear yellow variety concolor 
in Gard. Chron. 1891, ii. p. 69), and afterwards the typical form. 
variety concolor is strikingly distinct in colour, and was figured at t 
of the Botanical Magazine. The Seychelles plant is quite typical, am 
sent to Kew by H. P. Thomasset, Esq., of the Cascade Estate, with v% 
other Orchids. It was found on moss-covered trees, in mountain ax 
A plant having the same general character, except that the Jateral § 
are rather narrower and less connate, has recently been collected 
Shiri Highlands, Zambesiland, by Mr. G. Adamson, and what may ! 
same thing has just flowered in the collection of Sir Charles Stti 
Bart., and is said to have come from Uganda (Gard. Chron. 1906, 1: P 
This I have not seen. Other localities are F iji and New Caled 
remarkably wide diffusion if all are specifically identical, as they @PP* 
be from dried specimens. The discovery of the genus in Africa is in 
ing. R. A. 
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