272 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (SEPTEMBER, 1908. 
well repay the little trouble by keeping temperatures even. For the next 
month they should run about as follows, allowing 5° to 10° rise for a sunny 
day :-— 
Stove or East Indian house: Night 70°; day, 75°. 
Cattleya house: Night, 65°; day, 70°. 
Intermediate house: Night, 60°; day, 65°. 
Cool house: Night, 55°; day, 60°. 
These are fire heat temperatures, without sun heat; night temperatures 
at Io p.m., and day temperatures at 12 noon. I mention this as I have 
been repeatedly asked at what time the temperatures should be as given in 
the Calendar. 
LIPARIS ATROSANGUINEA. 
Ir April, 1906, a striking species of Liparis from the collection of H. T. 
Pitt, Esq., Rosslyn, Stamford Hill, was exhibited at a meeting of the 
R. H. S., under the name of Liparis tabularis, and was noted as having a 
spike of maroon flowers, with a large rounded denticulate lip (O.R. xiv. p. 
148). A plant was presented to Kew, and flowered there in June, 1907, and 
as it was not identified with anything else a description and drawing were 
‘made. In answer to an application for the habitat, Mr. Pitt replied that 
ithe plant was obtained from Mr. H. A. Tracy, of Twickenham, without any 
record, and a letter to Mr. Tracy elicited the information that he obtained 
it from Mr. C. Curtis, of the Forest Department, Penang. It was then 
described (Kew Bull. 1908, p. 68); and subsequently figured (Bot. Mag. 
it. 8195). When the figure appeared, Mr. Ridley, Director of the Singapore 
Botanic Garden, wrote to say that the plant was a co-type of his Liparis 
atrosanguinea (Fourn. As. Soc., Str. Br. xxxix. p. 71), and grows at 4,000 
ifeet altitude in the Thaiping Hills, Perak, where Curtis got it in company 
with Mr. Derry. The apparent mystery of its appearance in England 
‘without a specific name was afterwards explained by Mr. Ridley by the 
suggestion that it might have been sent home by Curtis before it hada 
name, which was given as soon asit flowered there in 1903. In any case 
someone gave it a new name, and as L. atrosanguinea was not represented 
at Kew the mistake escaped detection, but it now seems desirable to put 
the matter straight. Ridley considers it to be a near ally of his L. venosa, 
a native of the same district, which itself is closely allied to L. tricallosa, - 
Rchb. f. (Bot. Mag. t. 7804), a species introduced from Borneo, by Mr. Bull, 
about thirty years ago. From both, however, it differs very markedly in the 
colour of the flowers, and in some details of structure. 
Liparis is a very large genus, which is widely diffused throughout the 
“warmer regions of the globe, and includes one British representative, but 
~very few are showy enough for general cultivation. . KR, ALR: 
