346 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [NovemBrER, 1914. 
1908, but only a small number survived the journey. At the same time 
Mr. Tracy received plants of Cattleya Rex, Anguloa uniflora, and Oncidium 
Kramerianum from this district. 
The species has an interesting history. It was originally collected by 
Bungeroth, for Messrs. Linden, Brussels, and was described some 24 years 
ago from dried specimens and a sketch in water colours made by the 
collector (Rolfe in Gard. Chron., 1890, ii. p. 556). Living plants had been 
introduced, but had not yet flowered in Europe. The species was 
dedicated to His Majesty Leopold II., King of the Belgians. It was 
described as a species of the Cryptochilum group, and allied to O. 
corynephorum, Lindl., a species then only known from dried specimens, 
which was readily distinguished by its broadly rounded lip. A coloured 
plate was shortly afterwards given (Lindenia, vi. t. 274), this being made up 
from the living plant, the dried flowers, and the collector’s drawing. 
For some fifteen years nothing further was known about the species 
beyond the existence in cultivation of three or four plants which steadily 
refused to flower, but in October, 1905, E. Ashworth, Esq., Harefield Hall, 
Wilmslow, wrote that his plant was in bloom, and would be exhibited at 
the next meeting of the R.H.S. The plant duly appeared, and received a 
First-class Certificate, but on reaching the hall in the afternoon great was 
our surprise to see, not O. Leopoldianum, but the old O. corynephorum, 
described by Lindley some sixty-seven years earlier (Sert. Orch., sub. t. 
25, n. I.) from dried specimens collected by Matthews at Moyambamba, 
Peru. We then gave the history of the two species (O.R., xiii. pp. 334- 
336), and also a photograph of the plant (i.c., P- 359, Frontispiece). Mr. 
Ashworth’s plant was from the original importation, as it was purchased at 
the G. D. Owen sale eight years previously as O. Leopoldianum, and had 
been originally obtained from Messrs. Linden some seven years earlier. 
The appearance of O. corynephorum in cultivation was interesting, 
and as the habitat of O. Leopoldianum had not been recorded we suggested 
that the two species might grow together, and resemble cach other so much 
when out of bloom as not to be distinguished. And we added: “It will be 
interesting to see what the other plants are when they flower. There are 
still two with Messrs. Linden, at Brussels, and one in the collection of 
Sir Frederick Wigan, at Clare Lawn, but none of them have flowered, 
which itself is remarkable, considering how long ago they were imported.” 
An interesting confirmation of the suggestion comes in the recorded habitat 
of Mr. Goodson’s plant. 
O. Leopoldianum bears a general resemblance to O. corynephorum 
but is markedly different in the shape of the lip, which is broadly ovate 
shape, with a somewhat hastate base, and the colour violet-purple, with a 
nearly white margin and a bright yellow crest. The sepals and petals are 
