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current israpid. I had reached to about ten miles from the outlet when my 
attention was arrested by the trunk of a tree that was being borne along 
down the stream upon which was an Orchid, quite unknown to me, in full 
bloom. I immediately requested my negro to secure the treasure, a matter 
of considerable difficulty owing to the strength of the current. He at 
length succeeded in detaching the plants, three in number, from the log, 
which proved to be a new species of Miltonia (Odontoglossum), allied to 
Miltonia vexillaria and M. Phalenopsis. Some months later the plant, 
with other novelties, was acquired by Mr. William Bull, of Chelsea, 
for the sum of 250 francs.” The story seems very imperfect, for he then 
goes on to say that the plant grows on the horizontal branches of trees, 
to which its roots adhere without any moss, and also speaks of the 
warm moist climate, and the necessity for similar treatment at home, 
adding that the usual cool Odontoglossum treatment causes rapid death. 
The plant evidently grows on both sides of the Cordillera, for Messrs. 
Veitch remark that with the exception of the original, the plants in cultiva- 
tion have been brought ‘‘ from the valley of the Cauca, on the eastern or 
opposite side of the western Cordillera. . . . Its habitat is now known 
to be in the province of Antioquia, on the slopes of the hills near the river 
Atrato, a tributary of the Cauca, growing on trees and rocks mostly in 
shade at 1,000-2,000 feet elevation, sometimes associated with Oncidium 
Kramerianum.” Messrs. Sander, however, when figuring the plant 
(Reichenb. ser. 1,1. p. 45, t. 69) say—‘‘ The native haunts of Miltonia Roezlii 
are the hot valleys of the Dagua River in South America, and there and in 
the Cauca Valley near Juntas it grows abundantly on low trees. Roezl used 
to tell us that where it grows, rain falls three hundred and sixty-five days 
in the year, and from this we may safely infer that it must be grown with 
us very moist indeed. ) 
The late Consul Lehmann collected the species near Juntas, on the Rio 
Dagua, at 500 to 1,000 metres elevation, and between Buenaventura and 
Nawanja, Cauca, from o to 500 metres, so that it probably has a wider range 
than is yet realized. R. A. 
EPIDENDRUM COSTATUM. 
A VERY interesting Epidendrum has just flowered in the collection of Sir 
Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Dorking, which proves to be the long- 
lost E. costatum, a Mexican species, which was originally described from 
dried specimens (A. Rich. & Gal. in Ann, Sc. Nat., ser. 3, iii. p. 21), and 
which afterwards flowered with Messrs. Loddiges, an inflorescence and leaf 
being preserved in the Lindley Herbarium, with the date ‘‘ June, 1845.” 
It bears aconsiderable resemblance to E. patens in habit, and has short 
pendulous racemes of crimson-purple flowers, with some yellow on the disc 
