HE ORGHI Dc REVIEW: 
VoL. XVI.| JULY, 1908. [No. 187. 
ORCHIDS AT BRUSSELS. 
A CONSIDERABLE number of Orchids are cultivated at the Brussels Botanic 
Garden, and in looking through the collection recently, in company with 
the able Curator, M. Louis Gentil, we noted some interesting things in 
bloom, with others that are seldom met with in cultivation, particularly a 
number of botanical species from the Congo. Besides those grown in the 
usual Orchid houses, we found others scattered in suitable places through 
different houses, and in a _ very interesting Ethological collection, 
intended to represent some of the adaptations of the vegetable kingdom to 
the conditions of their existence, we found a section devoted to epiphytes, in 
which the plants were growing on the tree trunks in a natural manner, and 
among them Epidendrum Parkinsonianum, Brassavola fragrans, Scuticaria, 
Nanodes Medusz, Ccelogyne, and Oncidium, a species of the latter being in 
bloom. Another house contained a number of botanical Orchids from the 
Straits Settlements, which were being established, but they had not 
travelled well, and we only noticed Dendrobium secundum in flower. 
Coming to the Orchid houses proper, we noted various species in flower, 
as Cypripedium barbatum and C. xX Petri, Ccelogyne elegans and 
Massangeana, Physosiphon Mooreana, the yellow form of Maxillaria 
variabilis, M. Meleagris, Epidendrum cochleatum, Scuticaria Hadwenii, a 
species of Stelis, Oncidium pumilum, Xylobium squalens, Lycaste Skinneri, 
and other familiar species. There were also several plants of Cymbidium 
Lowianum in bloom, but the flowers, with scarcely an exception, were 
affected with some fungus which gave them a speckled and hairy appear- 
ance and disfigured them considerably. We do not remember to have 
noticed this fungus before, and it would be interesting to know what it is, 
and how to get rid of it, for it is a very undesirable acquisition. 
The next two houses contained quite a general representative collection, 
and we noted in bloom examples of Dendrobium densiflorum and 
chrysotoxum, Miltonia spectabilis, Bulbophyllum gibbosum, Phragmo- 
pedilum xX Sedeni candidulum, Maxillaria Binoti, Cochlioda vulcanica, 
Cypripedium barbatum Warneri, C. X Harrisianum Dauthieri, Vandas, 
Odontoglossum Egertonianum, and others. 
In the Victoria house we noticed a fine plant of Vanilla Pompona, 
193 
