46 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [FEBRUARY, 1909. 
DamPinG should also be more frequently done, in order to keep a nice 
growing atmosphere in the houses. 
WATERING should be gradually increased as the plants commence to 
grow stronger. 
TEMPERATURES will rise considerably with sun heat, but keep the fires 
well in hand, and do not let the houses drop below the lowest temperatures 
given last month. It is no use attempting to work to a degree in the day 
time, as one cannot control the sun, and some days it is not bright enough to 
shade, but still the sun has power to run the temperatures up a good deal. 
It will do no harm to let them go 10° higher so long as a close atmosphere 
is not created. 
BULBOPHYLLUM LEMNISCATOIDES. 
THE reappearance of this remarkable little species in the collection of Sir 
Jeremiah Colman, Bart., Gatton Park, Reigate, isinteresting. It originally 
appeared in the collection of Mynheer Van Lansberge, Chateau des Rees, 
Brummen Gueldre, Holland, over eighteen years ago, when it was described 
(Rolfe in Gard. Chron., 1890, i. p. 672). It had been imported from Java. 
Practically nothing further was heard about it until last autumn, when it 
flowered at Gatton Park (O.R., xvi. p. 292). This latter plant had been sent 
by Mr. Connell with other Javan Orchids. It is the only ally of the 
remarkable Burmese B. lemniscatum which has yet appeared, and indeed is 
very similar in the inflorescence and in having three remarkable pendulous 
appendages, one from the back of each sepal, though in other details the two 
are very distinct. B. lemniscatum has strongly tuberculed, three-leaved 
pseudobulbs, and the sepaline appendages are clavate, and bear ten 
longitudinal crenate keels, while the other has smooth, one-leaved pseudo- 
bulbs, and the appendages are less clavate and cylindrical in outline. B. 
lemniscatum was discovered by the Rev. C. Parish on an old shingle roof at 
Zwakabin, in Moulmein, in November, 1868, and two years later plants were 
sent to Kew, which flowered there in July, 1872, when the species was 
described and figured (Bot. Mag., t. 5961). Sir Joseph Hooker then 
remarked: ‘‘A more singular little gem of an Orchid cannot well be 
imagined. Its curious glossy, tuberculed pseudobulbs, its capillary scape; 
with the long inflated upper sheath, its pendulous spike of glistening minute 
flowers, and above all, its slender appendages, that hang over from the back 
of each sepal, are as curious in structure as beautiful in colouring.” The 
species was cultivated at Kew as late as 1892, but has unfortunately since 
been lost sight of. In botha good pocket lens is necessary to enable one 
to appreciate their remarkable character.—R. A. R 
Since the above was written a figure of the species has appeared (Gard. 
Chron., 1909, i. p. 68, fig. 38), with a short description, but its early history 
is omitted. 
