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THE ORCHID REVIEW. [September, 1904* 



this season ; yet this is the spot selected by Vanda ccerulescens, Dendro- 

 bium Bensonse, and other Orchids. It is not until we get to a higher 

 elevation that we come across Dendrobium crassinode, D. crystallinum, 

 Vanda Denisoniana, D. binoculare, D. Farmeri (yellow variety), &c. The 

 three last-named plants prefer more shady places than D. crystallinum and 

 D. crassinode " (Gard. Chron,, 1870, p. 796). The beginning of February 

 would be the resting season of the plant, and the conditions mentioned may 

 have been exceptional, but they show the necessity of giving the plant a 

 warm position when resting during the winter and keeping it pretty dry. 

 Mr. James Cypher, one of our most successful growers, once remarked : — 

 " I believe many or nearly all are lost by having too much water during 

 winter or early spring, and even when the new growths are several inches 

 long they should receive very little water." He also remarked: — "I have 

 grown it for eight years, and at the end of that period had finer bulbs than 

 when imported." Col. Benson estimates the average temperature at 8o°F» 

 and the rainfall at 90 inches per annum, the latter, however, chiefly falling 

 in the rainy season, which, of course, is the period of active growth. The 

 species should be wintered with D. Phalamopsis and the other New Guinea 

 species. 



NOVELTIES. 



Cochlioda brasiliensis, Rolfe. — An interesting Brazilian species of 

 Cochlioda, known for upwards of thirty years from a dried specimen col- 

 lected near Rio de Janeiro by W. Longman in May, 1872, and now put 

 into commerce by M. Binot. A plant imported by the latter has now 

 flowered at Kew. It differs from all the other species in having greenish 

 segments, but agrees in having the stalk of the lip completely adnate to the 

 column and the blade reflexed, and, of course, in habit and other structural 

 detail. It is much less showy than its allies, on account of its modest 

 colour, but it is interesting as an outlying member of the genus, for the six 

 species hitherto known are all natives of the Andes. The plant has the 

 general habit of its allies, and the pseudobulbs are tufted and diphyllous, 

 with lanceolate-oblong leaves z\ to five inches long, and slender arching 

 scapes five to ten inches long, simple or with a side branch, and bearing 

 from six to thirteen flowers. The sepals and petals are spreading, five to 

 eight lines long, somewhat revolute, and light green with a slight suffusion 

 of olive brown. The lip is adnate to the column for nearly three lines, and 

 the limb is three-lobed, with a pair of fleshy heels on the disc, and a mass 

 of short yellow hairs in the throat. The colour is white, tinged with green 

 on the front lobe, and with faint purple at the apex of the heels.— Gard, 

 Chron., 1904, ii., p. 141. 



