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DECEMBER, 1909.| THE ORCHID REVIEW. 373 
C. insigne, on the contrary, at first was checked by the heat and drought 
during the summer here, but after some years the plants have got 
acclimatized, and I notice especially this year how strong and tall the 
flowering stems are of C. insigne Sanderz, which at first resented the change 
from an English Orchid house, and for the first year seemed at a standstill. 
The point to which I wish to draw attention is this. C. Fairrieanum has 
a fora year been grown in the open air here, where the thermometer falls 
below freezing point not unfrequently during such a winter as the last, 
though the temperature is rarely as low as 50° during the day-time. 
During the summer it is exposed to strong winds and high temperatures, 
with a dry atmosphere on many occasions, and under these conditions 
it has thriven to an unusual degree. Cymbidium Lowianum is the only 
other Orchid I know that stands the same extremes, but its constitution is 
so robust that it enjoys equally the damp atmosphere of an English Orchid 
house. The same conditions suit Clivia miniata, but that plant is much 
less hardy where any frost is concerned, and is soon disfigured by a 
severe winter stormhere. Hence I would say grow your C. Fairrieanum as 
you grow your Clivias. E. H. WoopDatt. 
HABITAT OF C. FAIRRIEANUM.—The following note is taken from a 
work by John Claude White, C.I.E., entitled Sikkim and Bhutan (p. 185), 
recently published by Edward Arnold: ‘‘ On that occasion I entered the 
hills a little further to the west, at Subankhata, and accompanied Sir Ugyen 
for a few marches till we came to the Kuru-chhu, on the direct road to 
Tongsa. On this journey I came across quantities of Cypripedium Fairrie- 
anum growing in masses on the magnesium limestone hills. This is the 
Orchid of which one specimen reached England about 1860 in a consign- 
ment sent from Sikkim by Sir Joseph Hooker, but had since become extinct, 
and for which £1,000 was offered by Orchid growers. I had been on the 
look-out for it for several years, and now when I did find it I was just too 
late, as it had been discovered during the survey of the Am-mo-chhu Valley 
a few months before.”” The localities are both in Bhootan, but we have not 
yet been able to ascertain the altitude.—Eb. 
CIRRHOPETALUM LONGISSIMUM.—A plant of this remarkable species was 
exhibited at the R.H.S. meeting held on November 23rd by Sir Trevor 
Lawrence, Bart., and received a First-class Certificate. The species is a. 
native of Siam, and was discovered at Pungah by Mr. C. Curtis, “it 
flowered at the Botanic Garden, Penang, in October, 1893, and was 
described three years later by Ridley (Journ. Linn. Soc., xxxii. p. 280), the 
author remarking : “‘ This species is remarkable for the immense length of 
the lateral sepals, which are upwards of a foot long.” The species flowered 
