﻿evidently the Philippine plant now known as P. Aphrodite, not the original 

 P. amabilis of Blume. The effect of the unfortunate confusion between the 

 Malayan and Philippine plants has not yet been lost. 



The issue for December 26th also contains a note and illustration of 

 Cattleya Dowiana (pp. 838, 839), from the collection of A. Hallstrom, Esq., 

 of the "same place. 



The current volume of the Botanical Magazine opens with two plates of 

 the remarkable and handsome Cymbidium rhodochilum, Rolfe (tt. 7932 

 7933), one of them showing a reduced drawing of the whole plant, the other 

 the apex of the inflorescence, natural size. Commenting on the collector's 

 statement that it always grows on masses of Platycerium, Mr. Hemsley 

 remarks that " it is not unusual for one epiphyte to grow on another, but it 

 is rare for the associated plants to be constantly the same." The history of 

 the plant was given at page 1N4 of our truth volume. 



There is also a plate of Arethusa sinensis, Rolfe (t. 7935), from a plant 

 which flowered in the collection of H. J. Elvves, Esq. It is an interesting 

 addition to a small genus, which is remarkable in its distribution for an 

 Orchid, having one North American, two Central American, one Japanese, 

 and one Chinese species. 



The Orchid Stud Book. — We have received numerous enquiries 

 respecting this work, and hoped to have been able to give full details this 

 month, but regret that we were not able to get them read}- in time. We 

 hope that our readers will recognise the difficulties entailed in the work, 

 and excuse a little unavoidable delay, which no one regrets more than 



