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THE HISTORY OF THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE XXXV 
intermedia." Among other notable plants introduced about 
this time were Euphorbia splendens (pl. 2902) ; Renanthera 
coccinea (pl. 2997); Peristeria elata, the Dove Flower or e/ 
Spirito Santo (pl. 83116); Cephalotus follicularis, the Austra- 
lian Pitcher-plant (pl. 3118-9); Bletia Shepherdii (pl. 3319), 
named in honour of the brothers Shepherd, who gained so 
great a reputation for the Liverpool Botanic Garden ; and, 
making a considerable leap, the lovely Australian Rho- 
danthe Manglesii (pl. 3483). This brings us down to 1836, 
the date of a notable event in pictorial botany. 
W. A. Freres. 
As I must perforce pass over much that is interesting, 
I cannot do better, perhaps, than halt at the point where 
this famous botanical artist makes his first appearance, 
which, so far as the Botanical Magazine is concerned, took 
place in 1834. By this time Hooker's botanical labours were 
so multifarious that he found it necessary to obtain some 
assistance in drawing plants, and hearing of this then young 
artist, he sought him out, engaged him, and soon inducted 
him into botanical drawing. The earliest plate bearing the 
name of Fitch is 8353 (vol. lxi.), Mimulus roseus. But, as 
he himself informed me, all the uninitialled plates of that 
volume and the next were drawn by him. No fewer than 
eleven artists contributed to vol. Ixii., including Francis 
Bauer: 3377, Microtis parviflora, and 3378, M. media. 
After that, Fitch was practically the sole artist down to the 
end of the 103rd volume (1877), and drew and lithographed 
about 2800 of the plates. 
Tt is almost superfluous for me to add that this forms only 
a small portion of the. work done by this accomplished 
botanical artist, whose name appears in every English 
illustrated botanical and horticultural work of importance 
published during the last half century. 
In 1845 Dr. J. D. (now Sir Joseph) Hooker described (in 
Hooker’s London Journal of Botany, iv., p. 640, pl. 23 and 
24) the singular arboreous Composite, Fitchia nutans, a 
native of Tahiti and other islands of the Pacific Ocean ; and 
in 1869 he dedicated the ninety-fifth volume of the 
Magazine ‘‘to the accomplished artist and lithographer of 
‘ It is worthy of record here that Lindley founded the genus 
Cattleya in honour of W. Cattley, a gentleman who was the most 
successful of the earlier amateur cultivators of epiphytal Orchids. The 
original species was C. labiata, figured in the Collectanea Botanica 
(pl. 33) in 1821; and Lindley wrote concerning it as being ‘‘ without 
exception the handsomest species of the order he had seen alive.” 
