88 THE GENUS MASDEVALLIA. 
plant as a species: he writes, “ Bromus asper Murray. . . . . var. B. - 
Benekenii.”” He seems to have been doubtful as to the position of 
the plant: how, then, can it be right to make him sponsor for the 
species ? | _ The golden rule, ‘‘ Never make a@ man sa 
those 4s follow Dr. Richter must cite a species as ‘‘ B. Benekent 
{Lige.] Richter.” _ Sade is the sstiodin the name must stand 
as Benekenti, not ekent. 
Hordeum sylvaticum Huds. becomes ‘ H. europeum 
silvaticum, which he does not; and on = — Hudson is credited 
with oa silvatica, o— he did n 
We are tempt 
undergo oer plant which we are learnin call Cladium ger- 
ma name wehish: eatolatil by four years Brown's 
C. Mariscus (1810)—must be kn a en dies C 
will of course retain Mariscus as the pecific ses on the ground 
that it was employed by Linneus cand Be cheenus).. But he does 
not even cite C. jamaicense as a synonym; and, by a curious slip, 
he attributes the genus to Robert Brown, instead of to Patrick 
Browne, who established it in his History of Jamaica. 
The Genus Masdev a Issued by the Marquis or Lorin, K.T., 
hi s collection of Orchids at Newbattle Abbey. 
The plates od dcaavigtipieh by Miss Frorence H. Wooiwarp, 
with vignette engravings from photographs, and additional 
notes by Consul F. C. Lexumann (German Consul in the 
Republic of Colombia). Folio. Part I. £110s. Grantham, 
1890. 
RE is no Natural Order to which more interest now-a-days 
attaches than that which includes the many curious and beautiful 
forms 0 hids. o introduce new ones horticulturists have 
searched far and wide, from the tropical jungles of Malaya to the 
aoe heights of the South American Andes. Unlimited time and 
as been spent on ae cultivation; their selection and 
hehouestca has become a study in in itself, leading to beautiful 
and striking results; and se highest scientific culture has been 
applied to the solution of the m many biological problems presented 
in the various, often extremely complicated, form and arrangement 
of the parts. 
it ‘e therefore somewhat to find so few recent 
ription 
through ee horticultural and scientific pe but a good 
systematic revision of a whole genus is a rarity. The advent 
