a8 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [APRIL, 1909, 
One has to wade to the knees in mud and swampy water. The gnarled, 
crowded trees are stunted by the wind toa seven foot growth. Every trunk 
and branch teems with sturdy intermedias, their roots stretching to the 
perennial moisture below. In April and May their flowers are resplendent. 
Cattleya guttata prefers the higher trees, which would take hours to cut 
down. Their roots will descend the trunk forty feet or more, and their 
pseudobulbs attain to five feet and corresponding thickness. The perianths 
of different specimens vary in colour from very dark spotted brown to light 
greenish spotted yellow. Some are quite free from spots and of bright brick 
red or a delicate yellow with vein-like markings. 
C. Harrisoniana is found in a similar situation, but is scarce, as also are 
Lelia purpurata and elegans. C. Forbesii favours plentifully the low 
shrub at the edge of the high tide mark. A few yards inland and on higher 
ground Oncidium barbatum, micropogon and longipes will be discovered. 
QO. sarcodes, pubes aurea, and various other Oncidiums, prefer the lower 
trunk of large trees in dense shade, their racemes shooting up yards for more 
light. 
Gongora bufonia likes the fork of a low tree about three feet from the 
ground; another Gongora, whose name I know not, accompanies it. They 
are fertilised by a big blue bee. 
Zygopetalum (Huntleya) Meleagris is not scarce, but like many other 
Orchids is difficult to spot on account of itsresemblance at a short distance 
to Bromelias of numerous species, which cover nearly every tree. (Some of 
the smaller Bromelias flower beautifully enough to merit more horticultural 
attention. They should give little trouble in an Orchid house, and roots 
seem superfluous to them). 
Zygopetalum Mackayi (or intermedium) abounds in the sand. I have 
never seen it as an epiphyte, though some books deny it as a ground 
Orchid. When a patch of shrub is burned its pseudobulbs seem to suffer 
little, and it is the first of vegetable life to show green shoots among the 
cinders. 
In sheltered, higher-lying, well-timbered valleys the gorgeous Stanhopea 
insignis will be found, its large and curious flowers giving a faint odour like 
French polish. Why did Veitch and Williams doubt its existence in 
Brazil ? 
Three or more species of Catasetum specialise themselves by their 
needle-like upright air roots, and by preferring a dead tree to a live one. 
Epidendrum fragrans is delightfully easy to obtain, and after Cattleya 
guttata is the most perfumed of local Orchids. Epidendrum Capartianum 
flourishes in many directions. Another Epidendrum of dark bronzed stem 
and foliage gives a large fine flower with pure white lip, resembling, if not 
identical with, E. nocturnum. It is self-fertilizing, sometimes forming the 
