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men who conduct the business all look for a 
rise. 
Od. Harryanum always reminds me—in such 
an odd association of ideas as everyone has 
experienced—of a thunderstorm. The contrast 
of its intense brown blotches with the azure 
throat and the broad, snowy lip, affect me some- 
how with admiring oppression. Very absurd ; but 
on est fait comme ca, as Nana excused herself. 
To call this most striking flower “ Harryanum” 
is grotesque. The public is not interested in 
those circumstances which give the name signi- 
ficance for a few, and if there be any flower 
which demands an expressive title, it is this, in 
my judgment. Possibly it was some Indian report 
which had slipped his recollection that led Roezl 
to predict the discovery of a new Odontoglot, un- 
like any other, in the very district where Od. 
Hlarryanum was found after his death, though the 
story is quoted as an example of that instinct 
which guides the heaven-born collector. The first 
plants came unannounced in a small box sent by 
Senor Pantocha, of Colombia, to Messrs. Horsman 
in 1885, and they were flowered next year by 
Messrs. Veitch. The dullest who sees it can now 
imagine the excitement when this marvel was dis- 
played, coming from an unknown habitat. Roezl’s 
