D 
a 
fal} 
[mal 
i 
fa 
(Continued from p. 16.) 
To Odontoglossum Edwardii, from M. Warocquk; 
Cypripedium barbatum Crossii, from M. WarocQus; 
Phalaenopsis Schilleriana, from M. DE LANSBERGE; 
Cypripedium Ashburtoniae, from M. VAN WAMBEKE ; 
Odontoglossum pulchellum majus, from M. WAROCQUE; 
Cattleya amethystoglossa, from M. WAROCQUE; 
Cattleya Trianae, from Count DE BOUuSIES; 
Dendrochilum glumaceum validum, from M. MOENS. 
* 
* * 
Toast of M. J. Linden, at the banquet of 11" March. 
Many persons having expressed the desire to see preserved the toast proposed by 
M. J. Liven, at the banquet of r1th. March in honour of the fiftieth Meeting of the 
ORCHIDEENNE, we think it well to give the text below. 
GENTLEMEN, 
Extempore speaking is not easy at my age. I have seen 77 years, ten of them spent 
campaigning in the tropics, which count double. 
In consideration of this age, you will permit me to be brief, and to talk about my early 
relations with our favourites, the Orchids, which are assembled here in such large numbers. 
But before going further, permit me to say to M. le comte DE BousiEs how much I am 
touched and affected by his kind and flattering words about me, which you have just 
heared. I thank you from my heart, and I pray you to accept this expression of my warmest 
gratitude. 
I also beg the honourable members of the organising commission of this sympathetic 
and friendly manifestation, as well as all the honourable adherents, present and absent, 
to accept my thanks for the great honour which they have done me, and also my son 
Luctgn, in so graciously offering us their photographs, together with this brilliant déjeuner. 
This high appreciation of services rendered, each in his sphere, to botany and horticulture, 
also to amateurs of Orchids, is the most valuable and agreable recompense which we could 
desire. The approbation of all the distinguished amateurs is more valuable for us than the 
highest honorary distinctions. 
I will tell you a few words about myself and how I became an explorer, thus realising 
the desire of my dreams since childhoud. I was educated at the Faculté des Sciences of the 
University of Brussels, of which I am now one of the last survivors of those who were 
students in the first years of its foundation. In September, 1835, the Belgian Government 
entrusted me with a scientific mission into south America, little known at that period, and 
allotted me two colleagues, MM. Funck and GHIESBREGHT. 
Our preparations were soon made, and by the end of December in the same year we 
landed in Brazil, after an unpleasant voyage of three months, which would now be per- 
formed in sixteen days. It was, however, only in the Cordilleras of the Venezuelan and 
Columbian Andes that my Orchid discoveries attained their greatest importance. 
(Lo be continued on p. 20.) 
Ue 
| = pe) 
