68 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
THE GENUS PESCATOREA. 
(Concluded from page 46.) 
OuR preceding paper showed an aggregate of fifteen species, but an 
additional one has since been recognised, having hitherto been located in 
the allied genus Bollea, to which, however, it does not belong, as a glance 
at the column will show. 
ga. PESCATOREA SCHR@DERIANA (Bollea Schrcoederiana, Sander, Gard. 
Chron., 1895, xvii., pp. 401, 497, fig. 70; Orch. Rev., iii., p. 158; Journ. of 
Hort., 1895, xxx., p. 287, fig, 50; Gard. Mag., 1895, p. 199, with fig.; 
Garden, 1896, lv., p. 486, t. 1072; Wien. Ill. Gart. Zeit., 1897, p- 393; 
t. 4).—This handsome species was introduced by Messrs. F. Sander & Co., 
St. Albans, and received a First-class Certificate from the Royal 
Horticultural Society in March, 1895, the plant exhibited bearing nine 
flowers, which are described as very fragrant. The sepals and petals are 
white, and the lip light purple, smooth, and rather narrow, with a pair of 
diverging apical lobes, which latter locates the species near P. Roezlii, or 
P. euglossa, if the latter is really distinct—a point which cannot be decided 
in the absence of an authentic specimen. 
We have now to consider the two plants mentioned at the commence- 
ment of this article, as having been exhibited by Frau Ida Brandt, of 
Zurich, at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society on November 21st 
last, to which meeting they had been sent for determination. 
One of them was shortly afterwards figured under the name of 
Zygopetalum Gairianum in the Gardeners’ Chronicle (1899, Xxvi., p. 401, 
fig. 129), where Mr. J. O’Brien, alluding to Mr. Gair’s original plant, — 
described in 1879, remarks :—*‘ But little has been heard of the species — 
since until now, when a flower and photo of a plant received from Consul 
F. C. Lehmann, and which evidently is the same thing, is kindly sent by 
Frau Ida Brandt,” &c. A comparison with the original descriptions 
however, reveals several discrepancies, and Reichenbach distinctly states 
that Mr. Gair’s plant belongs to the “ Asperilingues,” while the lip of the 
present one is nearly, if not quite, smooth. From a comparison of the 
diving flower and painting, I should refer the latter to P. bella, which 
Reichenbach thought was a hybrid between Bollea ccelestis and some 
Pescatorea. And Mrs. Brandt wrote me, quite independently :—‘‘ My idea 
is that this so-called Pescatorea Gairiana is a natural hybrid between Bollea 
ccelestis and Pescatorea Klabochorum.” She also states that it was received 
“‘a year anda half before, from Consul Lehmann, as P. Klabochorum.” This 
idea is quite in accordance with the character of the plant. Bollea ccelestis 
is written large all over it, and the column is quite intermediate between 
the broad, cucullate one of the former and the narrow one of the latter. 
