198 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JULY, 1914. 
XXXVIIl. p. 353), but the flowers in the Lehmann Herbarium are constantly 
so much smaller that the two are evidently distinct. 
The variety superba was added in September 1881 (Rchb. f. in. Gard. 
Chron., 1881, ii. p. 364), as a plant collected in New Granada by Schmidten 
for Mr. F. Sander, which had flowered in the collection of R. P. Percival, 
Esq., of Southport. It was painted by Mr. John Day on October 26th, 
1882 (Orch. Draw., xxxi. t. 25), when its history was given as follows :— 
“This unique and splendid variety was sold in bloom at Stevens’ 
this day. The owner of it, Mr. Barth, a farmer in Kent, who buys a good 
many Orchids, bought it at Stevens’ among some plants just imported two 
or three years ago, and paid only a few shillings for it. It was 
knocked down, after keen competition between him and Baron Schroder 
and Mr. W. Bull, to Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., M.P., for £75 12s. I 
made a pencil sketch of it on the fly sheet of a letter in my pocket, and 
showed it to Sir T., who sat next to me when it was sold, and he 
immediately picked off a flower and gave it to me to finish my drawing by, 
which was really a right regal thing to do, and which I do not think any 
one else would have done.” 
This appears to have been the first of the autumn-blooming varieties, 
though the character is not mentioned. It has flowers of moderate siz, 
bright rose in colour, with a large crimson, somewhat radiate blotch on the 
base of the lip. It may be the blotched form of the following. There ec 
published figure of Sir Trevor's plant (Orch. Alb., iv. t. 171). 3 
The variety rubella was recorded in 1892 (Veitch Man. Orch., vill. P» 
III), though there may be an earlier record which has been overlooked, fot 
Lehmann gives it as a geographical form first gathered by Wallis in 1876, 
and subsequently by himself, and it was figured by Mr. Day on Octobet 
27th, 1883 (Orch. Draw., xxxix. t. 9), when seen in flower at Mr. W. Bull . 
Mr. Day remarked: “ This variety is quite peculiar in flowering at this 
time of year. Mr. Bull has several plants in bloom all exactly alike, the 
flowers smaller than the summer-blooming variety, and quite as dark © 
here represented. It is a very pretty variety and valuable blooming at a 
Season.” This is the earliest special mention of the autumn-bloomin§ 
character that we have found. Lehmann’s Herbarium specimens . 
localised as Forest of Tocota and El Salado, West Andes of Cali, for 
in March and April and October, indicating a double flowering season | 
the wild state. 
We have not seen dried specimens of the other varieties mentioned 
Lehmann, but Measuresiana appears to be the same as the earlier vatl® 
alba (Orch. Alb., v. t. 204), a pretty white-flowered variety of moderate a 
It came from New Granada. Of var. albicans we only know Lehman? 
record. Lastly we may mention a small flowered Peruvian form of wH 
