THE ORCHID REVIEW. 331 
NOTES ON ORCHIDS IN THE JUNGLE. 
By Major-GENERAL E. S. BERKELEY. 
(Continued from page 235.) 
THE limestone hills, half way onthe road between Moulmein and Amherst, 
used to be the home of Calanthe rosea (Limatodes rosea, Lindl.). - This 
small range of hills used to. be covered with thousands of these plants, and 
it was a beautiful sight to see them in flower there some twenty years ago. 
On my last trip down the Amherst road I found the road: lined with 
houses and fruit gardens, and the limestone hills were being»broken up and 
carted away for the purpose of making lime, so that not .a trace of the 
former béauties of these hills ‘remained, and ‘the rocks, which used to be 
-covered with Orchids, and many rare and choice begonias, balsams, and 
aroids, were quite denuded of nite and the whole character of the place 
was completely altered. 
It was here that I used to find the charming eirobsinin cuspidatum, 
which, with the exception of afew plants that I brought home. myself, I 
have never seen in England, and these have since died. This Dendrobium 
is one of the few that flower on the new growth. - It blooms in the middle of 
the rainy season, and all the new green leafy growths are covered with 
numerous white flowers tinged with light green, and seen in amass it is 
a very pretty Orchid. In Moulmein it is often cultivated on the oval husk 
of a cocoanut, and hung up in the verandah, when it presents pes a ball of 
flowers. - 
_ The old locality of Calanthe rosea not hice ee any ; plik, I scsi up 
hacoives Salween twenty-five miles to Trenkla, to explore some of the lime- 
stone hills in that district, and was soon delighted to find my old friend 
growing luxuriantly, and the rocks covered with many other beautiful 
things, notably balsams and some very charming begonias, with leaves like 
velvet. 
If the eer in Moulmein would only go out themselves what treasures 
would they find; but they confine themselves, as a rule, to sitting in Moul- 
mein, and sending the natives out to collect already well-known plants. 
~ In this district also grows Habenaria Susanne. It seems.anextraordinary 
thing that this fine old Habenaria should:only recently (August 28, 1894) 
have been brought before the Orchid_Committee of the Royal Horticultural 
Society fora Certificate. I have seen whole beds of it in flower in Moul- 
mein, and I cam only suppose that’ difficulty of transport prevented the 
collectors from bringing it home before. It is best known in England from 
Wight’s description © of. it in his Icones plantarum Indi@: orientalis, but 
no doubt it.has before this been. flowered in some of. our botanical 
gardens.. [This supposition is~correct—Epb.} Blume also . mentions 
the plant as ‘being found in the Indian Archipelago, ands Mr, Sander 
