﻿THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



HABENARIA CANDIDA. 



A pretty little white -flowered species of Habenaria has just flowered at 

 Kew, which was sent with other Orchids from the Sierra Leone Botanic 

 Station last year by Mr. J. P. Quinton. It proves to be identical with a 

 specimen preserved in Lindley's Herbarium, and labelled " Habenaria 

 Candida, Sierra Leone, Loddiges," thus being regarded by the author as a 

 new species, but the description apparently was not published, as it cannot be 

 found. The sheet is not dated, but must be over half a century old, and 

 may have been one of the plants sent from Sierra Leone by George Don. 

 The species was published by Kranzlin, under Lindley's name, in 1893 

 (Engl. Jahrb., xvi., p. 217), when the author added that it had also been 

 gathered on Sugarloaf Mountain by Preuss. Durand and Schinz changed 

 the name to H. leonensis, Kranzl. (Conspect. Ft. Afr., v., p. 80), whether by 

 accident or design is not quite clear, for they omit the name H. Candida, but 

 cite the volume and page where it is described. In any case they are the 

 authors of the name H. leonensis, which is repudiated by Kranzlin (Orch. 

 Gen. et Sp., i., p. 907), on the ground that H. Candida, Dalz., is synonymous 

 with the earlier H. subpubens, Rich. The plants are about five or six 

 inches high, bearing four or five oblong lanceolate acuminate leaves, 3 to 

 6 inches long by 7 to 10 lines broad, and terminating in a short raceme of 

 four or five pure white flowers, with a light green spur if to i| inches long, 

 and sometimes minutely bifid at the apex. The flowers are about 9 lines 

 in diameter, with the sepals ovate, apiculate, and the petals similar but 

 much shorter. The lip is entire, subulate-linear, and 5 lines long, while the 

 stigmas are clavate, and 1 line long. Its reappearance is interesting, and 

 it will presumably require the temperature of the Warm house. 



R. A. Rolfe. 



CYMBIDIUM PARISHII VAR. SANDERS. 



It has frequently been a matter for complaint that collectors of new species 

 do not furnish particulars of the conditions under which they grow in a 

 wild state, so as to enable purchasers to cultivate them with some hopes of 

 success, but this we are glad to find will not be the case with the above 

 beautiful plant, whose history we gave at page 163 of our June issue, for 

 Messrs. Sander & Sons have received a very interesting note from their 

 collector, Mr. Micholitz, which has been forwarded to The Garden, and 

 appears at page 141 of the issue for August 27th. It relates to the above- 

 mentioned plant and a second species which the collector met with. Mr. 

 Micholitz says:—" Cymbidium Sanderae always grows on trees, frequently 

 together with a large polypodium, where its roots seem to revel in the fern 



