BOTANICAL MUSEUM LEAFLETS 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
CampripGr, Massacuusetts, JUNE 26, 1956 VoL. 17, No. 7 
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ORCHIDACEAE NEOTROPICALES I 
DE ORCHIDACEIS INDIGENIS INSULARUM TRINIDAD 
ET TOBAGO NOTULAE 
BY 
RicHarp Evans SCHULTES 
Tue following miscellaneous notes have accumulated 
during the preparation of a monograph on the orchids of 
Trinidad and Tobago. 
Trinidad’s place in orchid horticulture has been very 
important. This was especially so during the first half of 
the 19th Century. Some of the species mentioned below 
have been collectors’ prizes. Others represent curious or 
little known ‘“‘botanicals’’ of great interest to the tax- 
onomist and phytogeographer. 
There have been two comprehensive taxonomic treat- 
ments covering the orchids of Trinidad and Tobago. The 
earlier one is A. H. R. Grisebach’s ‘‘Flora of the British 
West Indian Islands’’; it was issued from 1859 to 1864 
and enumerated 97 species of orchids from the Colony. 
In 1910, A. Cogniaux published a treatise on the orchids 
of the West Indies in volume six of Urban’s ‘‘Symbolae 
Antillanae’’; he recognized 148 species and a few varie- 
ties as native to Trinidad and ‘Tobago. 
Since 1910, the number of orchids known from Trini- 
dad and Tobago has grown appreciably as a result of 
careful and persistent collecting. This is due in great 
part to the remarkable field work of the late Mr. Walter 
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