234 - THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
NOTES ON ORCHIDS IN THE JUNGLE. 
By MajJorR-GENERAL E. S. BERKELEY. 
(Continued from page 138.) 
I PREVIOUSLY suggested that for a winter excursion for an Orchidist I 
could imagine no more charming spot than Moulmein. Situated on the 
Salween river, there is easy access to the interior by water. Just above the 
promontory on which Moulmein is situated the River Attaran pours its 
waters in from the south-east ; a little higher up the Salween is joined by 
the River Gyne, which enters it from the north-east. 
Each river is worth exploring, the best plan being to charter a boat and 
put up at the different villages. Every halting-place will be found rich in 
Orchids in great variety, including popular varieties well known in England, 
and botanical curiosities of great interest, many of them no doubt still un- 
described. 
Of the Formosz section of Dendrobium, the variety D. formosum is 
scarce in the delta of these rivers, the plants being more generally found 
towards Amherst and along the sea coast. At a distance from the sea its 
place is taken by D. Draconis (D. eburneum of Parish). This plant has a 
very wide distribution, I came across it in all parts of Burmah from north 
to south, and that it extends into Siam I know, as I received plants of it 
from the Consul of Siam, which I still have in my collection, and which I 
consider one of the best forms, as it has such a good constitution and 
flowers with me regularly every year. It is a heat-loving variety, and I 
have often found the plant crowded with flowers all down the stem, when it 
is a beautiful sight. In England it generally confines itself to producing a 
bunch of flowers at the top of the completed growth. My experience with 
this plant is that it does not flourish many years grown in a pot ; but grown 
on a block of wood it is a perfect success. I have a plant so cultivated, 
which has flowered regularly every year for twelve years. It is a very sweet- 
scented Orchid, 
In noticing the other nigro-hirsute Dendrobiums found within easy 
distance of Rangoon, I may mention the extremely sweet-scented D. 
scabrilingue (D. hedyosmum). It is found more sparingly near Moulmein 
than farther in the interior. At Pegu it abounds, and being always found 
in the low country it requires heat. I find it does well in shallow pans. 
South of the Attaran river its place is taken by Dendrobium cruentum, 
which has very much the same habit as D. scabrilingue. Its habitat is 
: about 13° N., and it consequently requires great heat and moisture to grow 
it successfully, It is like many others of this section, as it does not like 
much potting material, it is a charming Orchid and flowers very freely all up 
the stem in its native home. There is a nice figure of it in the Orchid Album, 
plate 174. 
