6 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
third, for we find 74 species enumerated under Polystachya, 48 under 
Angrecum, 52 under Listrostachys, 19 under Mystacidium, 41 under 
Bulbophyllum, and 20 under Megaclinium, beside a few others. Of the 
genera at present treated, Lissochilus heads the list with a total of 83 
species, while 65 are credited to the closely allied Eulophia, two or three 
of them being epiphytic. 
Two new genera are described, Ancistrochilus and Podandria, the latter 
allied to Habenaria, but remarkable for its long-stalked anther, and the 
former based on Pachystoma Thompsonianum, a plant well known in 
cultivation, of which it is remarked :—‘ A curious little monotype, originally 
referred to the Asiatic genus Pachystoma by Reichenbach, with which, 
as pointed out in the Botanical Magazine (t. 6471), it neither accords in 
floral character nor in the structure of the pollinia. It belongs to the 
same group, but is readily distinguished by the pollinia being united to 
a single stipitate appendage, as well as by the remarkable lip and spreading 
segments.” Its name is now A. Thomsonianus. Many new species also 
appear for the first time, over twenty of them in Eulophia. The species 
are for the most part very local, very few being common to East and 
West Africa, and still fewer reaching South Africa or the Mascarene 
Islands. One species, however, forms a marked exception to this rule, 
namely Epipogum nutans, a leafless saprophyte, which is found at Ambas 
Bay in the Cameroons, also in North and South India, Ceylon, Java, and 
Australia. The presence of two species of the northern genus Epipactis, 
one in Somaliland and another on Mt. Ruwenzori, is also interesting. 
Showy species suitable for cultivation are rare, and comprise chiefly 
the Ansellias, the remarkable Lissochilus giganteus and a few others of 
the genus, and a few species of the Angrzecum group, but others appear 
in botanical collections, as certain species of Megaclinium, Polystachya, the 
_ remarkable Bulbophyllum barbigerum, and others. 
The work contains complete descriptions, with keys to the genera 
and species, references and synonymy, and full geographical distribution, 
and forms an important addition to our knowledge of the group, especially 
as the information had not previously been brought together. 
PAPHIOPEDIUM SEED AND THE TIME TO SOW IT. 
I HAVE heard it suggested and even asserted by Orchid hybridisers that 
when a seed pod happens to become ripe in late autumn, or in the winter, 
it is better to put it on one side, carefully labelled, and to defer the sowing 
until the early spring. To this I have replied in my own mind: How to 
they know? They cannot yet have had sufficient time or experience do 
make their opinion of any practical value. 
