332 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
informs me that his collectors have recently found the plant in islands 
still more to the westward, so that the plant must be much more widely 
distributed than has hitherto been supposed. I have met with it both in 
India and Burmah, and it was always a great delight to come across a 
group of it. It is found in very warm, sheltered, moist places. It is too 
soft and succulent a plant to grow under any other conditions, and should 
do well in a shady corner in the stove. The flowers are not always pure 
white, I have found spikes of it with a dash of green, but all the varieties 
are beautiful. 
Beyond Trenkla, on the opposite side of the river, Dendrobium luteolum 
abounds ; I generally found it growing on the bushes within easy reach. In 
its native habitat the plant is of rather a straggling nature, in consequence 
of its throwing out numerous side shoots. It grows on the top of the bushes, 
freely exposed to light and air, and spreading itself out by its erial roots until 
it forms quite a mass. In this locality, even during the short dry season, the 
fogs along the delta of the river are dense, so that, however much the sun 
may affect the plant during the day, it plumps up again at night. I never 
found this plant far from the river, and it is clearly a plant that likes both 
heat and moisture. This gives us a hint as to the best mode of cultivating 
itin England. The country on either side of the river is avery hot district. 
There is a short dry season during the winter which ripens the summer 
growth, causing the stems to lose their foliage, at the same time that the 
night dews keep the roots alive and the plants plump. 
It may here be remarked that I have never found epiphites in the low 
country in situations where the air was always dry day and night. Higher 
up a few hundred feet Orchids are found where the necessary condition of 
humidity is absent, but in such cases the night temperature is very low, not 
high, as in the low-lying plains. 
Although limestone hills abound in the neighbourhood of Moulmein, the 
varieties of Orchids growing on them are not very numerous. Calanthe 
vestita in its many varieties is found in various places in abundance, and 
occasionally a seedling of exceptional beauty turns up among them. A few 
botanical curiosities are found on the stunted bushes, but few Orchids grow 
on the rocks themselves, which are more generally found covered with 
numerous bright balsams and begonias. 
I must not pass the district of Trenkla over without mentioning, for the 
benefit of future collectors, a beautiful Renanthera which I found there; a 
remarkable plant with long hanging leafy stems many feet long, producing 
very long drooping spikes of yellow flowers barred with chocolate. It was a 
nice thing, but I failed to get the plant home alive. The flowers were sent 
to the late Professor Reichenbach, but he did-not determine it. 
It is a mistake to Suppose that Moulmein is worked out. Parish is the 
best man we ever had there, but even he collected very few of the ground 
