Mr. Bentham’s work, especially as regards the revision of 
the Orchidex in the ‘* Genera Plantarum,” which has been 
justly described as ‘‘a masterpiece of research and 
scientific taxonomy.” The “neo” was very judiciously 
added, in order to avoid confusion with the two previously 
founded (though abandoned) genera named Benthamia, one 
of which (which still bears in all gardens the honoured 
name) being a species of Cornus ; the other is a Herminium, 
which genus again will I doubt not in a future “ recensi 
Orchidearum” have to be merged into Habenaria. 
Neobenthamia is one of Sir John Kirk’s many discoveries 
in the Zanzibar kingdom; living plants of it were sent by 
him to the Royal Gardens in 1884, which flowered in a 
stove in February, 1890.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Up and column; 2, front view of column; 3, anther; 4 and 5; 
pollinia :—all enlarged. 
