294 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [OcToBER, 1906.. 
ORCHID-GROWING AND COLLECTING IN JAVA. 
By E. ConNELL, Alas Bezoekie, Loemadjang, Java. 
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VANDA SUAVIS is more shade-loving, and comes forward on the edges. 
of jungles, old, abandoned coffee trees being a prolific source, though I 
have found it on bare exposed places also, on the side of the Arenga 
palm, in the full blaze of the sun, also upon half dead trees, apparently 
quite happy and blooming freely, although the leaves have a yellowish. 
tinge. There are many varieties of this Orchid, varying in the richness 
size and shape of their flowers. Some are very heavily blotched with rich 
red-brown, and. have the sepals very much turned back; the foliage varies 
greatly also. Plants vary in size from incipient growth up to specimens: 
with 24 pairs of leaves, and two to three shoots with from ten to twelve 
each. I count my specimens by the thousand, or did until recently, so 
that there is always a fine show of bloom. Vanda tricolor comes from the 
west of the island, and I have never seen or obtained any from East Java. 
V. helvola is obtainable, but is not very common; also V. limbata, a very 
showy Vanda. I am told there are four or five varieties. Mine have 
brownish red petals, tessellated and edged with yellow, and the lip is 4 
bright rosy purple. 
Coelogyne speciosa, Sarcochilus, and Erias, are mostly found in the: 
cooler depths of the jungle, upon large trees or small ones, and fallen logs, 
where little or no sun penetrates, and the atmosphere is very moist, 
though they will stand plenty of light in cultivation, and flower more freely- 
Coelogyne speciosa varies greatly, and has both long drooping and short 
flower spikes. The sepals are pale olive sepia and pale green, and the 
throat varies in shades of red to almost black. 
Among the ferns, canes, and other undergrowth, are to be discovered 
at intervals, Calanthe Cecilie, Phaius maculatus, P. grandifolius, P. 
Zollingeri, Cymbidium lancifolium and Cypripedium javanicum, though 
not necessarily all together. As a rule when one plant of a species © 
found there are others close at hand, and then you may wander for 
weeks and never see another. All the terrestrials named above grow 
the rich leaf mould in jungle humus, and mostly with their roots well 
exposed. These spread out from the base of the plant, and creep on the 
Surface at first, gradually penetrating into the humus for a few inches- 
This is particularly noticeable in Phaius maculatus, whose pseudobulbs 
are always well above the ground. Cymbidium lancifolium and Phalus 
grandifolius are also found with roots or bulbs well above ground, and 
grow best so planted, in leaf mould, with a little charcoal and § 
drainage. . 
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