CARL KRAMER. 



COLLECTOR IN JAPAN AND COSTA RICA. 

 18671868. 



CARL KRAMER, son of the late Herr Kramer, gardener to 

 Senator Janisch of Flotbeck near Hamburg, the well-known 

 possessor of a once fine collection of Orchids, was sent on a 

 collecting mission to Japan to supplement the collection made 

 there by the late John Gould Veitch, but his mission was a 

 failure. 



He was afterwards sent to Costa Rica and Guatemala for 

 Orchids, but he again sent home little of note. Kramer 

 proved entirely unsuitable for the work he had undertaken, 

 and apparently had not that adaptability and resource essential 

 to successful exploration. 



His name is associated with a species of Odontoglossum* 

 allied to 0. citrosmum, introduced from Costa Rica in 1868. 



* Odontoglossum Krameri, Bchb. f. Gard. Chron. 1868, p. 98. 



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