250 é THE ORCHID REVIEW. [ Aucust, 1 
Max Isaac, Esq,, Liverpooi, showed a fine example of Lelio-ca th 
callistoglossa, a Vote of Thanks being given. 
Messrs. H. Low & Co., Enfield, showed Cattleya Gaskelliana alba, 
which received an Award of Merit. 
A FLOATING ORCHID (HABENARIA REPENS). 
THIS interesting species is figured in the issue of the Fournal of the New — 
York Botanic Garden for April last (p. 112), and Dr. H. H. Rusby con ~ 
tributes the following very interesting note about it :— Be 
‘“‘ Many species of Habenaria are found in damp localities, and a fog | 
actually grow in water, but so far as known to the writer this is the first 
record of one growing in a floating position. ‘ 
“In the delta of the Orinoco there occur many lakes or pools, con: 
ected with. the river by channels in which the water flows only when | 
Bos of level occur in the main stream. During the rainy season the S 
water flows into them from the river, and they acquire a much greater 
depth than in the dry season, when, in fact, many of them dry up alto 
gether. These pools offer rich harvests to the collector of aquatics. ine | 
some of them the plants are all rooted in the mud, while in others, where ~ 
there is little current or other violent disturbance attendant upon the 
change in level, much floating vegetation is found. One of these still pools. 
existed at the back of a hill facing the river, upon which was built the one 
house that now constitutes Sacupana, where Mr. Squires and myself spent 
part of the collecting season of 1896. The shores of this pool were often 
visited by us, but no favourable opportunity occurred for exploring its 
surface until one day in May, shortly before our departure. On this afters 
noon we took a small cedar canoe and explored the narrow tortuous boi 
that connecis the pool and the river running along the eastern base of thi 
hill. The river had already risen some four or five feet from its lowes 
level. Few plants were found in the bayou until we had reached a point 
nearly a mile from the river, where we found the channel completely filled, 
and our progress stopped by a heavy sedge, which appeared to grow frome 
the shallow water at each side of the DayOu. .. .. 
** A short distance beyond this obstruction the ee turned sharply to . 
the west and broadened out into a small pool between a quarter and a 
mile in length, and with an average width of perhaps a hundred yrs 
Probably half of it consisted of open water, which swarmed with fish an 
reptiles. . . . Qn the surface, which was not clear, the greater pie 
was thinly coyered with slender and sparsely leafy grass stems, W which 105% 
to a height of about six feet above the eurdace. 2. acs. The remain 
the pool was covered with floating aquatics and floating leaves, but an 
