226 THE ORCHID REVIEW. {|AuGcusT, 1923. 
the oldest. The examination of a very extensive series of published and 
unpublished drawings of this plant convinces me that the names quoted 
above (moschatum, etc.) are all referable to our plant, which is so variable 
that to attempt a definition of its varieties would be impossible in this 
work.” Warner & Williams, in their Orchid Album (t. 165), give a coloured 
plate of D. moschatum cupreum, the flowers in this case being of a coppery 
yellow. This particular plant was a large imported mass that had been 
attached to a piece of flat board suspended in the stove house. 
SESTIORRGTET, ci 2 ty RERRaaa TR 
ORCHIDS FROM CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE 
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 
N further study of the flora of Central America and the Philippine Islands, 
Prof. Oakes Ames has found that certain Orchids appear to deserve 
recognition as new species or to require nomenclatorial attention. Descrip- 
tions of these, prepared from herbarium specimens, are now published as 
part No. 5 of Schedule Orchidiane, together with six analytical figures. 
Masdevallia linearifolia is a new species closely allied to M. simula, but 
clearly distinguished from it by the strongly caudate sepals, and by 
differences in the structure of the labellum and column. The illustration of 
Masdevallia Livingstoneana has been prepared to exhibit the range of 
variation that characterizes the flowers of this species. It is stated that 
‘‘ unfortunately there are perplexing speculations as to what constitutes the 
actual type of M. Livingstoneana, because there were two importations of 
the species from which Reichenbach might have obtained the material on 
which he relied for amplification of the original description. Mr. F. Sander 
informed Mr. Rolfe that after the sale of the first importation (the plants 
having been distributed simply as Masdevallia sp.), Roezl arrived at the old 
nursery in George Street, St. Albans, with living specimens and dried 
flowers. It was at this time that Rcezl suggested the name M. Living- 
stoneana, in honour of Dr. Livingstone, whose body had just been brought 
home by Stanley. Reichenbach did not abolish ambiguity as to the 
material that constitutes the type when he attempted to make atonement 
for ill-advised attempt to establish a new species with an incomplete 
description, for in his notes he failed to assure us that the flowers 
he examined came from specimens collected by Roezl in Panama. He 
simply reported that the fresh flowers came from Baden, where they had 
appeared in the Orchid collection of the Prince Egon von Fiirstenberg. In 
view of the evidence it would seem that the sketch on which Reichenbach 
wrote the first rough draft of the description which appeared in the 
1874 issue of the Gardeners’ Chronicle is the actual type of Masdevallia 
Livingstoneana.” 
