34 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
An interesting note respecting our old friend Eulophiella Elizabethe 
appears in Le Jardin for January 20th (p. 23). M. Grignan relates a 
conversation which he had some years ago with the distinguished traveller, 
Humblot, who told him that he was nearly certain that this beautiful plant 
was communicated to Reichenbach, who called it Eulophia Loise- 
Chauvierii. M. Grignan, however, does not think that the name has been 
published, as he has failed to find any record of it. 
This may be so, but perhaps the following notes may throw some light 
on the question. On June 7th, 1892, a plant was exhibited at a meeting of 
the R. H.S. by C. Ingram, Esq., of Godalming, under the name Cymbidium 
Loise-Chauvierii, and received a Botanical Certificate. It had green and 
black flowers, strongly recalling those of Ccelogyne pandurata. Shortly 
afterwards it was identified with dried specimens collected by Humblot, 
and described as Cymbidium Humblotii, by Mr. Rolfe, who remarked (Gard. 
Chron., 1892, xii., p. 8) :—With regard to the name {Cymbidium Loise- 
Chauvierii] a word must be said. It has been applied to a so-called 
“scarlet Cymbidium ” (which may be allied to the scarlet Phalzenopsis and 
blue rose), and it would be a pity to transfer it to a plain cousin in green 
and black in order to avoid the trouble of having to coin a name in 
harmony with the principles of binominal nomenclature. M. Humblot is 
equally entitled to the honour, and I should not be surprised to find that 
the living plant, like the dried one, has been through his hands.” 
This identification of C. Loise-Chauvierii with the ‘“ scarlet Cymbidium” 
was, if I remember rightly, made by Mr. F. Boyle in a Magazine article, 
which is reprinted in a work entitled About Orchids, where (page 132) I find 
the following :—Madagascar also will furnish some astonishing novelties; 
it has begun, in fact—with a vengeance. Imagine a scarlet Cymbidium ! 
That such a wonder existed has been known for some years, and three 
collectors have gone in search of it; two died, and the third has been 
terribly ill since his return to Europe, but he won the treasure, which we 
shall behold in good time.” The name, it is true, is not mentioned here, 
and I cannot refer to the original article, but at all events the identification 
was somewhere made. The question now is, whether Cymbidium Loise- 
Chauvierii and Eulophia Loise-Chauvierii are not one and the same plant, 
and, if so, the far-famed “scarlet Cymbidium” appears to be none other 
than Eulophiella Elisabethz, which adds another chapter to the remarkable 
history of this beautiful plant. Where the “scarlet”? comes in is not 
particularly obvious, but the scapes, bracts, and pedicels are of a peculiar 
lurid purple tint, and even the backs of the sepals are stained with purple, 
and this would at least afford a plausible excuse for the title, which is totally 
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