332 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [NoveMBer, 1922. 
Walker, of Winchmore Hill, bought a plant soon after they arrived, but it 
fell to my luck to acquire the whole of the remainder in the following 
winter, when one of them flowered. This became Amesiana Crawshay’s 
var., receiving an Award of Merit at the Royal Horticultural Society, 
January 11th, 1898, and a First-class Certificate on Jan 31st of the 
following year. 
There was no doubt in my mind that these velvety-lipped forms were as 
distinct a species from typical L. anceps as Cattleya labiata is from C. 
Trianz, and I set to work to trace every plant of Schroeder and the 
original Amesiana. Having compared them all, I completed a re-classifi- 
cation of Mexican Leelias (Gard. Chron. 1902, p. 414) placing Schroedere asa 
species and Amesiana asa variety of it, as well as transferring my Amesiana 
and Ballantineana to Schroederee. Ballantineana was one of the pieces 
that came over with the original Schroeder, and was also purchased by 
Baron Schréder. I was pretty well satistied for a time, as I had twenty-five 
plants of the velvety-lipped form that became much sought after. 
In June 1898, and also in 1899, Messrs. Stanley Mobbs and Ashton, who 
had taken over the business of Lewis & Co. received importations of “ L. 
anceps Dawsonii type.’’ Evidently they had not been seen in bloom by 
anyone who knew Dawsonii. It was no trouble to recognise them as 
coming from the same place as my Amesiana, and I acquired 215 more 
‘Velvet lips.” These importations had been received from a collector 
named Pechacek, who afterwards sent plants direct to Messrs. Protheroe & 
Morris for sale on his own account. On June 28th, rgor, an importation 
was catalogued as “‘ Lelia anceps Dawsonii type ;*’ and consisted of several 
hundreds which had been delayed and had lost their leaves badly. I 
recognised these as being Schroedere and bought almost the whole 
importation, only letting a few lots go into other hands, and many of these 
I afterwards purchased. From these importations I bloomed the exact 
duplicate of every previously named form of Schroeder, as well as many 
other extremely beautiful ones, including Lionel Crawshay and Theodora. 
Mr. McBean blooming Grace Ruby, an exceedingly fine form. 
My Mexican house was a sight nowhere else to be seen, being literally 
crammed full of Schroeder, which, when in bloom, presented a very 
beautiful spectacle. It was impossible to keep them all for ever, S° 
gradually I disposed of many till every Schroeder and almost every 
remaining anceps stood at nil in my books. 
Gradually it became known that I had cornered the Schroederes and 
had the largest stock ever held of them. With the great advance in the 
home-raised hybrids, Mexicans began to lose their popularity, and as my 
own stock of Odontoglossums and Odontiodas was rapidly overcrowding the 
houses I decided to part with the Mexicans. Messrs. Protheroe & Morris sold 
