﻿May, 1904.J 



THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



NOVELTIES. 



Ccelogyne venusta.— An interesting addition to the Coelogyne 

 Dayana group, which was introduced from Yunnan, by Messrs. Sander & 

 Sons, St. Albans, and recently flowered in the Royal Botanic Gardens, 

 Glasnevin. It is a very graceful plant, having pendulous scapes of about 

 10 inches long, and very numerous flowers, the sepals and petals being 

 very light buff, and 6 to 7 lines long, while the lip is white, with the side- 

 lobes and centre of the front lobe light yellow. On the base of the latter 

 occur six undulate keels, which are tipped with brown, and the central pair 

 extend down the disc of the lip to near its base, and aiv separated by a 

 deep channel. It is a smaller plant than most of its allies, and is dis- 

 tinguished from all of them by the relatively much greater proportion 

 which the front-lobe bears to the side-lobes. The specific name refers to* 

 the graceful character of the plant.— Rolfe in Card. Chron., 1904, i. p. 259. 



Dendrobium bellatulum.— Although not strictly speaking a novelty, 

 this beautiful little plant is scarcely known in cultivation at present, and it 

 is interesting to note that Messrs. Sander & Sons have now obtained a 

 batch from a new locality. It was originally discovered by Dr. Augustine- 

 Henry in Yunnan, growing on trees in the south-eastern mountain forests 

 of Mengtze, at 5,000 feet elevation, and was described over a year ago 

 (Rolfe in Joum. Linn. Soc. xxxvi., p. 10) as a beautiful little plant, much- 

 like a miniature edition of Dendrobium formosum. Soon afterwards some 

 plants were received by Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, through their col- 

 lector, Mr. Wilson, and one of these flowered imperfectly at Kew some time 

 ago (O.R. xi., p. 100). It has now been discovered in Annam, growing on 

 Oak-trees at Lang Bian, at 1400 to 1500 metres elevation, and flowering in 

 November and December, the discoverer being W. Micholitz, who has sent a 

 batch of living plants to Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans, so that we 

 may soon know something more about it. It grows in dense tufts of only 

 a few inches high, and native specimens show that it flowers very freely. 

 The pseudo-bulbs are fusiform-oblong, about three inches long, and they 

 bear three to four oblong or elliptical-oblong leaves, 1 to if inches long by 5 

 to 9 lines broad, and one to three terminal flowers, which are very large for 

 the size of the plant ; the sepals measuring 9 to 10 lines, and the petals 

 10 to 12 lines long. The latter are united with the foot of the column and 

 prolonged behind into a broad mentum or sac, some 4 to 5 lines long, which 

 is obtuse, not acute, as in all other members of the Formosa? group. The lip 

 is pandurately trilobed, and 13 to 15 lines long, with the side lobes rounded, 

 and the front lobe obcordately bilobed, while the disc bears five verrucose 

 keels. Micholitz describes the plant as growing in dense tufts, the leaves 

 as glaucous, the sepals and petals as white, the front lobe of the lip reddish 



