268 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
A characteristic Orchid, with a pendent habit, has long wiry rhizomes, 
much-sheathed pseudobulbs and long grassy leaves, and bears shortly 
stalked white or whitish flowers, individually beautiful and still more 
beautiful in the mass, which are sometimes familiarly spoken of in the 
colony as ‘‘snowdrops.” This, we may add, is Camaridium ochroleucum. 
On some of the trees, where the branches leave the trunks in the upper 
angles, nestle, their roots crowded with large, black, stinging ants, clumps of 
Stanhopea eburnea, and in similar places, but generally near the ground, 
and so placed that the flowers can rest on the vegetable débris, are found 
Peristerias pendula and cerina. Up the tree trunks, almost always on the 
side away from the creek and from the faint light which there prevails, 
closely cling luxuriant masses of Zygopetalum rostratrum, its huge, white, 
violet-veined flowers standing out with almost startling clearness from the 
gloom in which it grows. On the lighter sides of the same trunks grow, 
not in masses, but widely-scattered and singly, delightfully neat little plants 
of Paphinia cristata, its purple flowers, barred with white, extraordinarily 
difficult to see in the half-light natural to it. Stenia pallida grows in similar 
positions. Much higher up the trees, but still in the shade of the leafy 
roof, and almost always overhanging the water, occur the Gongoras, with 
necklace-like strings of flowers of several colours. 
On bushes in the wet savannahs are vast masses of Epidendrum 
oncidioides, with clustering pseudobulbs and narrow leaves, whose innumer- 
able straw-coloured flowers, tossed up into the air on very long flower-stalks, 
sometimes in such profusion as almost to dim the light, fill the air with a scent 
as of newly-flowering Hawthorn. Nor is this the only, or perhaps the most 
striking, Orchid of such places, as, from innumerable of the smaller branches 
of the bushes and from many of the woody aroid stems, hang long, loose 
clusters of Ionopsis paniculata, with its light clouds of pale, violet-coloured 
flowers, apparently hardly held together by anything substantial enough to 
be called a stalk. 
We have ventured to extract and condense a few graphic extracts from 
this most interesting paper, which should be read in the original, and we 
also reproduce the concluding paragraph, which has a practical importance 
for us. 
“TI have found by experience in my own garden (which it must, how- 
ever, be remembered is in the tropics),’”’ the author observes, ‘‘ that a great 
many small Orchids which it seems difficult or impossible to establish in 
pots or on blocks, or in any of the ordinary methods of the garden, can 
be established very readily—so readily that in the tropics they soon seed 
themselves freely over the garden—on growing plants of garden shrubs. 
Such shrubs as the various species of Tabernamontana, Jasminum, Gardenia, 
Hibiscus, Coffea, and even Crotons, make suitable hosts for Ionopsis 
