18 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (January, 1923. 
from various causes. In the same year, Don sent Eulophia gracilis, of 
which Lindley remarked that it ‘‘ has been in flower in the garden of this 
Society at Chiswick for nearly all the summer through.” Megaclinium 
falcatum flowered for the first time “in the stove, where it grows more 
readily than most of its compatriots, which are usually extremely impatient 
of cultivation. It should be planted in rich vegetable mould.” Another of 
Don’s discoveries, sent to England in 1822, was Bulbophyllum recurvum, 
figured in the Botanical Register, as Tribrachia pendula, where it is remarked 
that, ‘like nearly all the epiphytal Orchideous plants of Sierra Leone, this 
plant is very impatient of culture, we believe it will succeed better in a hot, 
damp, shady frame, than in any other situation.” 
_ Acentury ago Diuris maculata was sent from New South Wales by Mr. 
Allan Cunningham. It blossomed in the Royal Gardens of Kew in March, | 
1825. Microtis media appeared unexpectedly, as the following note from 
the Botanical Magazine explains: ‘‘ When Capt. King returned from New 
South Wales in 1823, he brought home with him turfs of the Cephalotus of 
King George’s Sound, at which port he had touched in his passage. From 
the sod that contained the Australian Pitcher-plant, sprang up unexpectedly 
our present subject (Microtis media), which produced its flowers in 1825, 
and thus enabled Mr. Bauer to make a sketch of this rare plant—an 
inhabitant, with the Cephalotus, of swampy grounds on the immediate 
shores of King George’s Sound, where it was originally discovered by Mr. 
Brown in 1801. - After flowering the plant died altogether at Kew.” 
Catasetum Claveringii, a variety of C. tridentatum, was brought, in 
1822, from Bahia de St. Salvador, in Brazil, to the Horticultural Society by 
George Don, Lindley describing it as ‘‘altogether the most singular 
Orchideous plant which has yet been seen in a cultivated state.” It was 
named in compliment to Capt. Clavering, the commander of His Majesty’s 
Sloop of war, the Pheasant, in which the Horticultural Society’s collector 
was carried from the coast of Africa to South America. In the autumn of 
1823, Catasetum cristatum flowered for the first time in the Society’s 
garden. Pelexia spiranthoides was brought from the island of St. Vincent 
by Mr. James M’Rae, in 1823, and by him presented to the Horticultural 
Society. Among other plants received at this period by the same Society 
was Polystachya puberula. 
Concerning a number of species sent by Dr. Roxburgh from India to 
the Botanic Gardens at Kew, John Smith wrote :—‘‘ These I found growing, 
in 1822, on a shelf above a flue against the back wall, in what was then 
called a propagating house; the Aérides growing and flowering freely, its 
roots clinging to the back wall, as also Saccolabium guttatum. There were 
also plants of Dendrobium Pierardi and D. cucullatum flowering freely, 
which had recently been brought home from Calcutta by Mr. Pierard.” 
