COLLECTIONS OF 1914. 
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Phaius sp. (F 64) is a handsome Orchid with clumps of voluminous, 
corrugated foliage, which I have found only in the lighter places 
and opener grassy glades of the steep forest up behind Satanee. 
There can thus be no doubt, not only of its perfect hardiness, 
but of its adaptability to cool and moist north-country conditions. 
The scape is some 8-10 inches high, in May, unfolding a loose 
spike of large greenish-yellow flowers with a handsome crumpled 
velvet lip of light umber-brown. Seed of this has been sent to 
an Orchid-grower to raise. 
Philadelphus sp. (F 369) has not been seen in flower. It is a tall, 
stiff, dense bush of 8-10 feet on the Mo-Ping pass, and is evi- 
dently extremely profuse of blossom on its rigid sprays. F 370 
is another Philadelphus from Lotus Mountain, which may or may 
not prove specifically distinct. (Coll. W. Purdom.) 
Phy salts Alkekengi (F 429) was sent, I think, by a slip of the pen, 
as P. Francheti. This is the common old Japanese Lantern or 
Winter Cherry, which I only send as a curiosity, having but once 
come upon it, wandering like a Nettle, amid the mossy limestone 
debris and straying Brambles on the cold shady side of the great 
Siku gorge, not far above its mouth. 
Pinus Armandi (F 341) is especially fine and abundant on the smaller 
drier ranges, amid slight scrub of Rose and Bramble &c. It can 
be seen here and there in the lower woodlands of the Siku-Satanee 
ranges, but belongs in finest form to the intermediate chains, 
abounding on the Mo-Ping pass, and up the shallow hills of the 
Nan Ho Valley. It is very much cut, and a very quick grower, 
so that old specimens or groups of it are rare ; there is, however, 
a splendid little forest of it on the summit of the ridges opposite 
Gahoba, where the tree at last attains to the splendid emerald 
amplitude of its maturity. 
Pleione Roylei var. (F 4) is an Indian Crocus of extraordinary beauty. 
It was only seen at one point of the Feng S'an Ling, deep down 
in a profound slaty river-gorge, heavily shaded and perfectly 
sheltered, so that I dare not yet assert its hardiness. Here it 
grows in big masses, up and up on the shelving ledges of the dark 
cliff, in, the accumulated leaf -mould fallen from the trees above ; 
on April 28 it was but just opening, yet already, such is its 
prodigality of blossom, the twilight of the cliff was aglow with 
countless bright blots of colour from its clumped blossoms of 
crimson-purple with their great lips crested and ridged with pure 
vermilion. Several bulb-mats of this have been sent home, 
and have, I hope, arrived in such condition as to admit erelong 
of distribution. [No ; no such thing. 1916.] 
Pleione sp. (F 158) is no less rare, but not so brilliant a thing. I have 
only once seen it, growing on the cooler face of an inaccessible 
church-big boulder high up in the mouth of the Siku gorge, 
where, on the ledges of vegetable mould, it grew in little clusters 
of two to three bulbils, rooting along in the surface-carpet of a 
