The Guiana Orchids. 



the Revd. Mr, HUNTLEY "a zealous cultivator of orchids," 

 Sobralia sessilis (after F. M. SOBRAL, a Spanish botanist) 

 Brassia Lawrenciana (after Mrs. Lawrencr of Ealing 

 Park) and Galeandra Devoniana (after the Duke of 

 Devonshire) were also sent by him and named in 1842. 

 It is unnecessary to give a list of the species found by 

 the SCHOMBURGK brothers, and we will therefore only 

 mention the genus Schomburgkia as having been named 

 in their honour. It may be as well however to mention 

 the mistakes they made in recording the species of 

 Caitleya found at Roraima. C. pumila and C. Mossiae 

 are both recorded, yet no one has discovered either of 

 these in the neighbourhood, the Cattleya growing there 

 being a species distinft from Mossiae, hardly deserving to 

 be called pumila, (dwarf) lately named C. Lawrenciana 

 from Sir TREVOR LAWRENCE, an enthusiastic orchido- 

 phile. 



Before leaving the early period we may mention a few 

 other commemorative names Cyrtopodium Andersonii 

 was introduced into England as early as 1804, and named 

 after Mr. Alexander Anderson, Superintendent of 

 the Botanic Gardens at St. Vincent, who visited Guiana 

 in 1 791 and collefted plants. Rodriguezia was named 

 in honour of Emanuel Rodriguez a Spanish physician 

 and botanist, Brassavola from Antonio Musa Brasavola, 

 an Italian botanist born at Ferrara in 1500, Stanhopea, 

 from Philip Henry, 4th Earl of Stanhope, Lockhartia 

 (Fernandesia) from David Lockhart, Superintendent 

 of the Botanic Gardens, Trinidad, from 18 18 to 1846, 

 Cyrtopera Woodfordii from Sir Ralph Woodford, 

 Governor of Trinidad, Maxillaria Henchemanni from 

 Henchemann a plant colleaor, Selenipedium Lindley- 



