May, 1908.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 155 
NOVELTIES, 
A RECENT issue of the Kew Bulletin contains a thirty-first Decade of New 
Orchids as follows, the first five being in cultivation :— 
LipARIS TABULARIS, Rolfe (1908, p. 68).—A large-flowered species which 
bloomed in the collection of H. T. Pitt, Esq., ‘Rosslyn, Stamford Hill, in 
April, 1906, and at Kew a year later, when a painting was made for the 
Botanical Magazine. It was sent from the Forest Department, Penang, by 
Mr. C. Curtis, to Mr. H. A. Tracy, of Twickenham. The flowers are dark 
purple, and the lip orbicular, closely denticulate, and about $ inch broad. 
Liparts WarPuRI, Rolfe (p. 69).—A curious dwarf species, introduced 
from Madagascar, by M. Warpur, which has flowered at Kew on several 
occasions. It has ovate leaves, and short scapes of one or two largish light 
green flowers. 
CIRRHOPETALUM FASCINATOR, Rolfe (p. 69).—A remarkable plant, 
introduced from Annam, by Messrs. Sander & Sons, through their collector, 
W. Micholitz, and flowered at Kew in September last. It is allied to C. 
appendiculatum, Rolfe, but has much larger flowers, which reach a length of 
six inches, and are striped and marbled with purple on a light green ground. 
The petals and dorsal sepal are handsomely fringed with long amethyst 
purple appendages. 
CIREHOPETALUM PAPILLOSUM, Rolfe (p. 70).—An interesting little plant, 
allied to C. retusiusculum, Rchb. f., but differing from all others in its 
papillose-hispid lateral sepals. It was sent from the mountains round 
Chiengmai, Siam, by Dr. Arthur Kerr, and flowered at the Trinity College 
Botanic Gardens, Dublin, in July, 1907. The dorsal sepa! and petals are 
lined with dark purple on a pale ground, and the lateral sepals marbled and 
speckled with red-brown. 
C@LOGYNE VIRESCENS, Rolfe (p. 70).—Introduced from Annam by 
Messrs. Sander & Sons, and flowered in their nursery in April, 1907. It 
has green flowers, and is allied to C. Parishii, Rchb. f., but differs greatly in 
the details of the crest. 
Groporum: paciricuM, Rolfe (p. 71).—A native of the Tonga and 
Solomon Islands, allied to G. semicristatum, Lindl. 
Potystacuya SMYTHEANA, Rolfe (p. 71).—A native of Sierra Leone, 
where it was collected by Mr. C. W. Smythe. It is allied to P. elastica, 
Lindl 
PoLysTACHYA LIBERICA, Rolfe (p. 72).—An ally of the preceding, 
collected in Liberia by Sir H. H. Johnston. 
Srauropsis Wooprorpil, Rolfe (p. 72)——A Solomon Island species, 
allied to S. Warocqueana, Rolfe, collected by officers of H.M.S. Penguin 
and by Mr. C. M. Woodford. 
