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with large mauve spots, very likely the finest form except Veitchianum. O. 
dulce, concinnum, and venificum are from the same hybridisation. I have 
a great many plants in flower, but they are mostly whites, the finely spotted 
forms are very limited.” This confirmed the identity with O. armainvillier- 
ense, to which we reduced the four as varieties, giving an illustration of var- 
ardentissimum, from a photograph.—O.R., x. pp. 209, 210, fig. 22. 
This record was followed by a figure of a single flower, and a note that 
the Orchid Committee had adopted O. ardentissimum as the primary name 
of the set, and to include all others of the set under it.—G.C., 1902, ii. p. 
50, fig. Ig. 
Now arose the question whether O. armainyillierense had at’ any time 
appeared as a wild plant, and we may summarise the evidence. 
1899.—A record that “a little group staged at Manchester, by Messrs. 
‘Charlesworth, contained O. crispum, triumphans, harvengtense, and what I 
take to be a form of O. Pescatorei, and these are said to have come together 
tied to sticks in the usual way they are imported. But does this necessarily 
prove that they grew, and were coliected, together ?’’—Rolfe in’O.R., vii. 
p- 167. 
1906.—-M. Fl. Claes wrote: “I think it may interest readers of the 
Orchid Review to know that early this spring.I flowered among a batch of 
semi-established O. crispum, a good form of O. Pescatorei. I must add 
that I never collected or received importations of O. Pescatorei, and 
consequently it could not get mixed in by chance. I suppose it is the first 
time that this species has been found among O. crispum.”—O.R., xiv. p. 167. 
1907.—Mr. J. M. Black cites M. Louis Forget as saying that “O. 
crispum extends from the Savannah plains northwards right to Simatoea (I 
have been unable to find this name on any map), where a few O. Pescatorei 
have already been found mixed with crispum.”—O.R., Xv. p. 326. 
=907.—Mr. J. Birchenall, who had been collecting in the Velez district 
for about ten years, including a few years for Messrs. Charlesworth, wrote : 
“The village that Mr. Black was unable to find on the map will probably 
be Simacota. Here O. nobile or Pescatorei grows, but I am not aware that 
. crispum reaches this place.” —O.R., xv. p. 372. 
Thus the evidence is not quite conclusive, though it seems probable that 
"at Simacota the areas of the two species practically meet, if not actually 
overlap. In the main the areas are distinct, and it is significant that the | 
Lehmann Herbarium, while containing so many O. crispum, has not a single 
piece of O. Pescatorei, which apparently Lehmann never collected, We 
have no doubt that Mr. Birchenall is right about Simacota. We find it on 
alarge map of Bogota, a little west of Socorro, some 25 miles N.N.E of 
Velez, and on the other side of the valley up which the railway runs. It 
seems possible that O. armainvillierense may occur there, though not in the 
