THE ORCHID REVIEW.. 163 
NOTES ON ORCHIDS IN THE JUNGLE. 
By Major-GENERAL E. S. BERKELEY. 
(Continued from page 112.) 
IN noticing the differences in the habit, shape, or forms of the same species 
caused by their surroundings, or by being separated by long distances from 
each other, I have not generally thought it necessary to give their varietal 
names, as such names are often applicable to individual plants only. — It is 
more desirable to make the variety apparent by some peculiarity connected 
with it. 
A striking instance of these peculiarities may be mentioned in the case 
of the well-known Aérides multiflorum (sometimes called A. affine). The 
first form, probably the type, is found in great quantities at Dehra-Dun, 
below Mussourie. This was probably the first variety to come home. I 
Scarcely ever see it now, except in very old collections. It grows far away 
from the hunting grounds of the professional collector, which will probably 
account for its not coming home of recent years. I collected it myself in 
1874. 
This plant is extra-tropical, growing in latitude 30° N., and of all the 
forms of this plant it is the easiest to grow, and the most lasting. It is 
very easily distinguished from all the other varieties; not only by the great 
length and leathery character of its leaves, but by their extremely ruddy 
colour. As might be expected from the dark colour of the foliage, the 
flowers are darker in colour than any other form. It is found in the lovely 
valley of the “ Din,” where there is a considerable amount of frost during 
the winter months. This, I think, accounts for the plant having acquired 
Such a very thick and tough foliage. Its tropical allies would be quite 
unable to withstand the frost, as the foliage of all the tropical varieties Is 
comparatively soft. In the same district grows the extremely rare Vanda 
cristata, and the rocky precipices rising out of the valley are covered with 
acres of Ccelogyne cristata, which will give English growers a very good 
idea of the sort of temperature this plant likes to grow in. I think it highly 
Probable that Aérides multiflorum also grows in quantity on the rocks with 
the Ccelogyne, but this I could not verify, as the precipices were far too 
Steep to climb, and had not the Ccelogyne cristata been a mass of bloom, 
I could not have told what it was growing on the rocks in such abundance. 
_ Although Aérides multiflorum is found throughout the whole of. the 
lower ranges of the Himalayas, and in Assam, we do.not come to the second 
distinct type until we come. to the hill country lying between Assam and 
-Kuladan River, grows what, in my opinion, is th 
Burmah. In the valleys of the Lushai Hills, near the source of the 
e most lovely and distinct 
of all the varieties. The plant is erect and compact in habit, with bright 
