﻿THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



[September, 1904. 



trees overhanging streams at 500 to 1,000 feet elevation, inpartial shade. 

 Our figure is from a plant which flowered in the collection of Dr. A. W. 

 Hoisholt, of Stockton, California, and represents the typical form. The 

 variety majus is a particularly fine form, in which the flowers sometimes 

 exceed ii inches in diameter. It is one of the finest Oncidiums in cultiva- 

 tion, and when well grown makes a capital exhibition plant, as its large 

 branching panicles of bright yellow flowers are very effective. It succeeds 

 well in a Warm or Intermediate house, and flowers in April, May or June. 



PARADISANTHUS BAHIENSIS. 



This is an interesting little plant which flowered in the collection of Senator 

 Jenisch, and was described by Reichenbach, in 1852, as the type of a new 

 genus (Bot. Zeit., x., pp. 930, 931). As its name implies, it had been intro- 

 duced from Bahia. Shortly afterwards it was figured by the author, in his 

 Xenia Orchidacea (i., p. 30. t. 14). What appears to be the same thing has 

 just flowered in the collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, 

 Dorking, who purchased it at the Sale Rooms as Orchid sp. Its reappear- 

 ance is interesting, though why it ever received such a name as Flower of 

 Paradise is not clear. The genus is near to Aganisia, but is distinguished 

 by having no stipes to the pollinia, and the gland transversely dilated. The 

 leaves are lanceolate, three to 4! inches long, and distinctly petiolate, while 

 the erect scapes are nearly twice as long as the leaves, and bear about six 

 to ten flowers, about eight lines in diameter. The sepals and petals are 

 nearly white, with a few transverse purple bars at the base, and the lip white 

 with a few slate-blue markings on the crest. The lip is three-lobed, and 

 the side lobes are confluent with the crest, which consists of a prominent 

 very concave body, with a few teeth at the apex and base. 



Three other species of the genus have since been described, all natives 

 of Brazil. P. Moseni, Rchb. f. {Card. Chron., 1S81, i., p. 298), was collected 

 by Dr. Mosen, and afterwards flowered with Messrs. F. Sander and Co., St. 

 Albans, while P. paranaensis and P. paulensis were both described by Rodri- 

 guez, in 1881, from native specimens {Gen. et Sp. Orch. nov., p. 215), the 

 latter having been described four years earlier by the same author as Zygo- 

 petalum micranthum {I.e., i., p. 109). P. paulensis has since been reduced to 

 P. Moseni by Cogniaux (Mart. Fl. Bras., hi., pt. 5, p. 518, t. 99, fig. 2), but 

 the details of the lip and crest of Rodriguez's drawing do not agree with the 

 cultivated plant, so that the point requires confirmation. P. paranaensis I 

 think, has been in cultivation, for dried flowers taken from a plant which 

 flowered at Kew in September, 1888, agree well with Rodriguez's figure 

 (Mart., I.e. p. 519, t. 99, fig. 1) in the details of the lip and crest. The 

 species are very imperfectly known at present. R. A. RoLFE. 



