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THE ORCHID WORLD. 
[June, 1913. 
shown under the appropriate name of alba, 
this dwarf-growing white variety has also 
carried the name S. macrantha Kienastiana, 
in honour of Herr Kienast Zolly, of Zurich, 
who first received it from his collector. It 
was described by Reichenbach, in the year 
1888, and was exhibited by Baron Schroder 
at the Royal Horticultural Society, June, l8gi, 
when a First-class Certificate was awarded. 
Dendrohium Dalhousieanum. 
Dendrobium Dalhousieanum. — The 
illustration on this page shows a noble 
specimen of this Indian Dendrobium, which 
has been grown by Mr. C. J. Salter, Orchid 
grower to the Right Hon. Lord Lawrence, 
Chetwode Manor, Buckingham. The tallest 
bulbs are 6 feet 7 inches in height. 
OPHRYS APIFERA. 
THIS pretty little British Orchid will 
soon appear in various parts of 
England, and by its gay flowers 
enliven many an open meadow. The 
remarkable resemblance which part of the 
flower has to a bee gives one the impression 
that this insect is resting on the centre of 
the bloom. This curious mimicry caused 
Langhorne to write the following lines: — 
" Perhaps, his fragrant load may bind 
His limbs; we'll set the captive free; 
I sought the living bee to find. 
And found the picture of a bee." 
This singular flower is made the emblem 
of industry, from its resemblance to the insect 
that has ever been held the symbol of this 
virtuous habit. 
" So works the honey bees, 
Creatures that by a ruling nature taught 
The art of order to a peopled kingdom."' 
- — Shakespeare. 
It was Robert Brown who first observed 
that the structure of the Bee Ophrys is 
adapted for self-fertilisation. The rem.arkable 
flexibility of the caudicles allows the pollen 
masses to fall to the exact level of the stig- 
matic surface and are there made to vibrate 
by the slightest breath of wind until the 
stigma is struck. 
At the meeting of the Linnean Society, 
held April 17th, 191 3, Mr. Edmund G. Baker 
gave an account of some varieties of the Bee 
Orchis, Ophrys apifera. He stated that in 
the typical form the labellum is broad convex, 
with a terminal, reflexed appendage, brown- 
purple, disc spotted with orange-yellow. In 
1840, Hegetschweiler, in Die Flora der 
Schweiz, described and figured Ophrys 
Trollii, a plant with the middle lobe of 
the labellum narrow lanceolate, elongated. 
