THE ORCHID REVIEW. 13 
About three thousand feet higher in the same range on the granite 
precipices is found Ccelogyne glandulosa. This is also a nice Orchid, but 
very difficult to collect, as it grows on the steepest rocks, clinging in great 
masses. The plants are always kept wet at the roots by the water running 
down the face of the rocks. This plant is found where there is frost in 
winter, but considerable heat in the summer, 
The rainfall at Walla-Ghaut is so enormous that all the coffee planta- 
tions in this particular locality have been abandoned, ten inches a day being 
the usual rainfall during the monsoons, a volume of water which carries. 
everything before it directly the earth is disturbed. I hear that the road 
down this Ghaut now is quite impassable; it was very bad when I last 
visited it. 
It is here that I found growing on the old coffee bushes, in great 
luxuriance, the Dendrobium album of Wight (see his description in Wight’s 
Icones Plantarum Indie Orientalis), and as the plants were in grand 
flower when I came upon it, it was a beautiful sight. Until I got down to 
the bushes I was much puzzled to make out what strange crop the old coffee 
trees were bearing. I had previously seen on the eastern slopes of these 
mountains an inferior variety, which is no doubt Lindley’s Dendrobium 
aqueum, and both plants are now decided to be one and the same Orchid. 
The difference of rainfall on the two slopes of these hills easily accounts for 
the difference in strength and habit. The eastern slopes get little rain and 
the vegetation on that side of the mountains is scant. In many places this 
annual rainfall being only fifty inches, while the western slopes are 
saturated by heavy rains, and are densely covered with tropical vegetation 
of all kinds, the tree ferns (Alsophila crinita) being the finest I ever saw. 
At Walla-Ghaut also grows a gigantic form of Dendrobium macros- 
tachyum, with stems ten times the size of the Ceylon variety, I may 
mention as a curious fact that I found Dendrobium macrostachyum in the 
Andaman Islands, which gives this plant a wider distribution than was 
hitherto suspected. 
Walla-Ghaut is a spot of special interest to sportsmen, as it is the 
Walla-Ghaut river that leads into the plain below, which is full of wild 
buffalo. 
(To be continued.) 
MILTONIA x BLUNTII VAR. PEETERSIANA. 
This handsome Miltonia appeared in the establishment of M. A. A. 
Peeters, of Saint Gilles, Brussels, where it flowered a short time ago, 
as well as on previous occasions. Miltonia x Bluntii, as is now well known, 
is a natural hybrid between M. spectabilis and M. Clowesii, and the present 
