264 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
HARTWEGIA KIENASTII. 
In 1877, a curious little Orchid, which flowered in the collection of Consul 
Kienast, of Zurich, was described by Reichenbach under the name of 
Ponera Kienastii (Gard. Chron., 1877, vii., p. 810), the author remarking :— 
“It forms quite a new, very curious section of the Poneras for its fleshy 
leaves.” Bentham, with only the description to guide him, had written 
upon the sheet, ‘‘not a Ponera,” and it was subsequently transferred to 
Scaphyglottis Kienastii (Hemsl. Biol. Centr.-Amer., iii., p. 219). An 
inflorescence and leaf from the original plant have now been sent to Kew 
by Consul Kienast, which show that it to belongs to the genus Hartwegia. 
It much resembles H. gemma, Rchb. f., in its dwarf inflorescence, and 
the leaf is also subterete, channelled, and mottled with two shades of 
green, but the flower is different in structure and colour. The lip has a 
short saccate base, formed by its union to the sides of the column. Above 
this it is sharply reflexed, after which the sides are infolded, forming a 
concave limb. The flower is veined with light reddish-purple on a whitish 
ground. It was originally discovered by Consul Kienast ‘‘ near Comas- 
caltepec, Sultepec, Arcos,” about twenty miles from the city of Mexico, 
‘in cold places, forming dense masses and patches on trees, and descending 
to the soil where it grows on moss.” It can only be called a botanical 
Orchid, but it is interesting to find that it is still in cultivation, and to 
learn something more about it. 
R. A. ROLFE. 
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THE STRUCTURE OF THE OPHRYDE. 
A NOVEL view of the structure of the Ophrydee is given by Sir George 
King in his introduction to the Orchids of the Sikkim Himalaya. Alluding 
to the currently accepted theory that the stamen is single in this group, as 
in the rest of the Monandre, Sir George King remarks:—‘‘A minute 
examination of the Sikkim species convinces me that this is not the case ; 
and that, in the Sikkim species at any rate, there are two stamens. This 
view is not, however, taken by Mr. Pantling, who is not satisfied with the 
proof of the hypothesis, and it is therefore published here on my own 
responsibility. . . . . The fertile anther is said to be the middle one 
of the outer whorl (i.c., the one opposite the odd sepal), the other two 
anthers of the outer whorl being represented by processes on the lip, and 
all the three of the inner whorl being merged in the column. One of the 
stigmas is supposed to be modified into the rostellum, and the other two to 
form the viscid stigmatic surface—a surface which, although usually simple, 
is, in many cases, bifid or quite divided into two segments. . mre ie 
however, the anther-cells of the Sikkim Ophrydez be carefully ceticd, it 
