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of his papers failed to show. In 1885, Dr. Regel, 
Director of the Imperial Gardens at St. Petersburg, 
received a few plants. It may be worth while 
to name those gentlemen who recently possessed 
examples of C. 2, vera, so far as our know- 
ledge goes. They were Sir Trevor Lawrence, 
Lord Rothschild, Duke of Marlborough, Lord 
Home, Messrs. J. Chamberlain, T. Statten, J. J. 
Blandy, and G. Hardy, in England ; in America, 
Mr. F. L. Ames, two, and Mr. H. H. Hunnewell ; 
in France, Comte de Germiny, Duc de Massa, 
Baron Alphonse and Baron Adolf de Rothschild, 
M. Treyeran of Bordeaux. There were two, as is 
believed, in Italy. 
And now the horticultural papers inform us 
that the lost orchid is found, by Mr. Sander of St. 
Albans. Assuredly he deserves his luck—if the 
result of twenty years’ labour should be so 
described. It was about 1870, we believe, that 
Mr. Sander sent out Arnold, who passed five years 
in exploring Venezuela. He had made up his 
mind that the treasure must not be looked for in 
. Brazil. Turning next to Colombia, in successive 
years, Chesterton, Bartholomeus, Kerbach, and 
the brothers Klaboch overran that country. 
Returning to Brazil, his collectors, Oversluys, 
Smith, Bestwood, went over every foot of the 
