JULY, 1903.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 203, 
The coloured plates are reproduced by the three-colour process from water- 
colour drawings, mostly by Miss G. Upcott Gill, and some of these are very 
good, considering that the process is still in its infancy, Epiphronitis x 
Veitchii, for instance (which bears the familiar initials ‘‘ N.R.”), though in 
some cases the colouring leaves room for improvement, and one or two 
might have come out better if taken from the subjects direct. But their 
arrangement must be described as promiscuous, for Dendrobium x 
Ainsworthii intertextum is among the Cirrhopetalums, D. formosum among 
the Odontoglossums, a group of three hybrids among Hardy Orchids, 
Vanda tricolor among the Angrecums, Odontoglossum X Wilckeanum and 
excellens among the Oncidiums, and if Sophronitis grandiflora is not out of 
place in a chapter for beginners, it is hard to see what connection 
Odontoglossum coronarium miniatum has with Hybridisation. And there 
is no reference whatever to these plates in the text (while all the black and 
white figures are cited), so that one wonders whether they were not thrown 
in as an afterthought. Asa matter of fact Calanthe x Kenneth and C. 
X triumphans are not included in the text at all. 
Some unfortunate blunders are introduced with the additions. The 
author of Coryanthes Bungerothii is not N.E. Br., nor is it a synonym 
of Catasetum Bungerothii. Rolfe is not the author of the genus 
Cryptophoranthus, nor yet of Phaius Warpuri, and, by the way, we are 
glad to see that Mr. Chapman now adopts Phaius simulans. Fig. 165 does 
not represent Stanhopea tigrina (but S. oculata), and Cypripedium xX 
Rolfez should have been Rolfei. C. Victoria-Mariz is not a variety of 
C. venustum, and “‘ Bifrenaria aurantiaca R. X. O., i., t. 94, f. 1,” is not a 
synonym of B. inodora. The descriptions appear to stand much as they 
did, and thus the account of Cycnoches is completely out of date, for our 
knowledge of the genus has been revolutionised since the first edition was 
written. In the cultural details, however, Mr. Chapman is thoroughly at 
home, and these we believe are thoroughly well done, which after all is the 
main purpose of the book. 
Das Pflanzenreich. Regni vegetabilis conspectus: Orchidaceae Pleonandra. 
Mit 157 Einzelbildern in 41 Figuren. Von E. Pfitzer (Wilhelm 
Engelmann, Leipzig). 
A recently issued part of the above work is devoted to the order 
Diandrz, here called Pleonandre. The characters of the suborder, tribes, 
genera, and species are given in Latin, while the details of anatomy, 
morphology, and geographical details are in German. The two tribes are 
called Apostasiine and Cypripediline, and Dr. Pfitzer now adopts the latest 
view (Orch. Rev. iv. pp. 328—330) that the former contains three genera and 
the latter four, while he abandons his genus Uropedilum. Of Cypripedilum 
