﻿THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



ANGRiECUM ROTHSCHILDIANUM. 



It is interesting to note that a plant of Angrsecum Rothschildianum has 

 now flowered in the Royal Botanic Garden, Glasnevin. The species 

 appeared about a year ago, in the collection of the Hon. Walter Roths- 

 child, and received a Botanical Certificate from the R.H.S. on August 4th. 

 It was shortly afterwards described as new (O'Brien in Card. Chron., 1903, 

 ii. p. 131, fig. 51). At first I had a little doubt about its being new, for 

 before it was exhibited Mr. O'Brien showed me a rude sketch, just taken as 

 a memorandum, and I immediately recognised a near ally of A. Galeandrse, 

 Rchb. f., if not actually a form of it. The leaves, however, were much 

 broader, and the locality different. Materials never came to enable the 

 point to be cleared up, and it is the more satisfactory to find that other 

 plants of the species are in existence. The inflorescence sent to Kew by 

 Mr. Moore has five flowers, having a stouter rachis and much shorter 

 bracts than in A. Galeandrse, but the size and shape of the flowers are sur- 

 prisingly similar to those of this hitherto rather isolated species. The 

 sepals and petals are oblong, obtuse, an inch long, and white, suffused with 

 light green up the centre. The lip is broadly funnel-shaped in front, rather 

 abruptly constricted below its junction with the pedicel, and then suddenly 

 inflated into an oblique, somewhat compressed sac, about five lines long. 

 The limb of the lip is very broad, reaching i\ inches when artificially 

 expanded, and about the same in length. The base of the lip is dull 

 brown rather than blackish purple, and in front of this is a large bright 

 green area, becoming somewhat paler where it passes into the broad white 

 margin. The column is half an inch long, rather broad, and the pollinia 

 typical Angraecum. The whole flower is remarkable, and the resemblance 

 to the genus of Galeandra is striking. The habitat is given as Uganda, in 

 the direction of the Victoria Nyanza. The allied A. Galeandra, Rchb. L, 

 is a native of Angola and the Gaboon district, and has not yet appeared in 

 cultivation. It has narrowly oblong leaves, which are distinctly bilobed at 

 the apex. R. A. Rolfe. 



NOVELTIES. 



Cymbidium insigxe, Rolfe. — A handsome species of Cymbidium, allied 

 to C. Lowianum and C. longifolium, but differing from both in having a 

 very broad, nearly orbicular lip, and the disc not strongly bilamellate. It is 

 a native of Annam, where it was found growing along ravines and in sandy 

 soil at 4,000 to 5,000 feet elevation. The general habit recalls the species 

 named, the leaves being about z\ to 3 feet long, and rather narrow, and the 

 scape measuring some 3 to 4^ feet long, and bearing numerous flowers 



