AUGUST, 1903.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 2590 
recover from the effects of the journey, but it was remarked that they had! 
travelled very well. The next six houses contained fine examples of. 
Cattleya Harrisoniana and others, Dendrobium Wardianum, Lelia 
purpurata, white forms of L. anceps, L. harpophylla, L. pumila, L.. 
autumnalis, with a fine L. X alba, said to have been collected in flower, a. 
few Lzlio-cattleya x elegans, and miscellaneous subjects, and we noted in 
flower the pretty little Leptotes bicolor, Epidendrum patens with pendulous. 
racemes of whitish flowers, and some good Cattleya Schroeder. There: 
were also a number of seed capsules and some hybrid seedlings. 
Succeeding houses contained a fine batch of Odontoglossum grande: 
Lelia anceps, Cypripediums, Oncidium concolor, O. Marshallianum, Cym- 
bidium Lowianum, and a lot of miscellaneous things, and among other 
things that we saw in flower were the handsome Chondrorhyncha 
Chestertoni, some good Cypripedium Lawrenceanum, Lelio-cattleya x 
bletchleyensis, Phaius X Norman, and a curious Phaiocalanthe bearing 
two spikes, and everyone of the flowers without a lip. 
Leaf-mould is used here to an enormous extent, and even without the 
admixture of other ingredients, and is said to give quite satisfactory results, 
even without a covering of moss, the pots used being as small as will 
accommodate the plants. In short, the collection is a most extensive one, 
the great majority being imported plants and in the most thriving. 
condition. 
CIRRHOPETALUM COLLETTII. 
THE name ‘ Cirrhopetalum proliferum, Hort.,’’ appears in the Kew Hand- 
List of Orchids (p. 57), but I have failed to trace any further particulars. 
about it. It was evidently included as one of ‘“‘a few names current in 
gardens . . . which have not as yet received a final botanical revision,” 
and which were ‘indicated by the abbreviation ‘Hort.,’ appended to 
them” (see page 12). The identity of the plant has remained in doubt 
down to the present time. Now, however, a plant so labelled has flowered 
at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, and has been submitted to: 
Kew, by Mr. F. W. Moore, for determinaton. It proves to be the hand- 
some species, C. Collettii, Hemsl., a native of Upper Burma, which 
is figured at t. 7198 of the Botanical Magazine. 
The circumstance fortunately enables the matter to be set at rest. 
It would, however, be interesting to know when and where the name 
C. proliferum originated. C. Collettii was described in 1890 (Hemsl. in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. xxviii., p. 131, t- 20). It is a native of Upper Burma, 
and was discovered by Sir Henry Collett, after whom it is named. 
R. A. ROLFE- 
