﻿THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



[October, ,904. 



discovery made in Tropical Africa by Mr. Kalbreyer, regarded from a 

 geographical point of view, as all the Pachystomas known were of Asiatic 

 origin, and he added : — " The large green, white and purple flowers, with a 

 certain Phalasnopsis shape, recommend the plant." It was shortly after- 

 wards figured from the same source (I.e., pp. 624, 625, 627, fig. 102, 103), 

 one of the figures showing a neat little specimen with about eight racemes. 

 It was also figured in the Botanical Magazine (t. 6471), when Sir Joseph 

 Hooker expressed his doubts whether it really belonged to Pachystoma, 

 though he was unable to find a better place for it among described genera. 

 Reichenbach afterwards made a new section of the genus for its reception, 

 which he called section " Thomsonianum " (Ken. Orclu, iii., p. 35, t. 213). 

 Pfitzer transferred the plant, with some doubt, to Ipsea (Engl, and Prantl., 

 Pftanzenf., ii., pt. 6, pp. 154, 155, fig. 138), and finally I established a new genus 

 for its reception, under the name of Ancistrochilus (Fl. Trop. Afr., vii., p. 44), 

 in allusion to the hook-like front lobe of the lip. It is allied to Pachystoma, 

 but is readily distinguished by the pollinia being attached to a single stipi- 

 tate appendage, and by its remarkable lip. Its habitat is i^iven as moun- 

 tains of Old Calabar, at a moderate elevation, growing on the trunks of 

 trees. It is very easily grown under suitable treatment, and the following 

 cultural note is given by Messrs. Veitch {Man. Orch., vi., p. 4) :— " Inhabit- 

 ing one of the hottest parts of the globe, its geographical position indicates 

 its chief cultural requirements, viz., a constantly warm and moist atmos- 

 phere, such as is maintained in the Phalsenopsis house. A suitable pro- 

 vision should be made for its subterrestrial creeping habit, such as a shallow 

 pan or teak basket, that can be conveniently suspended near the root-glass 

 of the house." R. A. R. 



MILTONIA KARWINSKII. 



A rare and very handsome Orchid is flowering in the collection of 

 J. E. Vanner, Esq., Camden Wood, Chislehurst. Mr. Robbins, in sending 

 a couple of flowers, remarks: — "The plant is carrying a branching spike 

 of about fifteen flowers, and a very lovely thing it is. It was named for us 

 some years ago by Reichenbach, but I never remember having seen it 

 anywhere excepting here." It is indeed rare, for I have only seen it alive 

 in September, 1888, when two flowers were sent to Kew by Messrs. 

 James Veitch & Sons, as " Odontoglossum Iseve var., from a collection at 

 Camden Wood, Chislehurst." These were evidently from this selfsame 

 collection, in the time of the late William Vanner, Esq., then, as now, 

 under the charge of Mr. W. H. Robbins. 



The species was originally described by Lindley, in 1837, under the 

 name of Cyrtochilum Karwinskii (Bot. Reg., xxiii., sub. t. 1992), from 



