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and write of them with something of the spirit of admiration and 
appreciation of their beauty that we who grow them possess. 
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NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS. 
HE third number of Schedule Orchidiane is devoted to descriptions of 
New and Noteworthy Orchids, by Prof. Oakes Ames, of Boston, 
Mass, U.S.A. With one exception the new species are natives of tropical 
America. Several Central American species have been reduced to 
synonymy after a careful examination of type material. The descriptions 
have been prepared from herbarium material. 
From the prefatory note we gain some interesting information regard- 
ing the Reichenbachian Herbarium. Reference is made under Epidendrum 
luteoroseum to specimens and drawings of Achille Richard’s types which 
are to be found in H. G. Reichenbach’s Herbarium in Vienna. ‘‘ These 
specimens and drawings,” states Mr. Oakes Ames, “‘ represent some of the 
Mexican species described by Richard and Galeotti in 1845. It would 
seem that this precious material was loaned to Reichenbach by the Museum 
d'Histoire Naturelle of Paris. That Reichenbach intended to return this 
material to those who loaned it to him is indicated by the tracings he made 
from the coloured drawings of the habit and from the analytical drawings of 
the floral structure of types. The tracings are now mounted on the same 
sheets that bear the drawings, a few of them actually superimposed on the 
originals. The most charitable view to take of this extraordinary situation 
is the one which leads us to believe that Reichenbach’s efforts to 
incorporate in his herbarium tracings of Richard’s species were interrupted 
by death, and that if he had lived he would have returned the originals. 
But it is difficult to overlook the motives which prompted Reichenbach to 
have his herbarium, together with the loaned specimens, sealed for a 
quarter of a century; that is, for a sufficient length of time to deprive his 
contemporaries of its service and to interfere with the progress of 
orchidology. When death overtook the man who criticised Achille 
Richard’s brevity, and who attempted to outlaw Richard’s species, his last 
- will and testament put under lock and key the evidence on which some of 
Richard’s work was based. This is the explanation of the mysterious 
‘absence of many critical specimens and drawings from the Richard 
Herbarium in Paris.” 
The new species described or specially referred to by Mr. Oakes Ames 
belong to the following genera :—Stelis, 3 ; Pleurothallis, 3; Lepanthes, 3; 
Epidendrum, 9; Zygopetalum, 1; Bulbophyllum, 1; Telipogon, 1; and 
Ornithocephalus, 1. Reference is made to the Orchid Review, 1916, 
