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p- 490), while O. aspidorhinum grows in dense forests on the eastern 
declivities of the Western Andes of the Cauca, at 7,100 to 8,100 feet 
altitude (Gard. Chron. 1895, xviii., p. 356). Besides the geographical 
difficulty, there is the further objection that the crest of O. aspidorhinum is 
totally different from that of O. X Wendlandianum, and cannot even be 
called spiny; in fact, the affinity of that species is with O. blandum and O. 
constrictum, not with O. crinitum. The crest of the hybrid is like that of 
_ O. crinitum with all the spines much.reduced, as would inevitably occur in 
a cross between the latter and O. crispum. Whether the two grow 
together I cannot ascertain, for the habitat of O. crinitum is vaguely 
recorded as Eastern New Grenada, and I cannot find anything more 
definite on the subject. It is to be hoped that the matter may be cleared 
up before long, either by direct experiment or otherwise. 
Rv Aw R. 
' EULOPHIELLA HAMELINII. 
M. L. HAMELIN, Chateau d’ Hautegente, Dordogne, has issued a Catalogue 
in which he offers for sale three species of Eulophiella, E. Elisabeth, one 
called E. Hamelinii, and an unnamed one. The second is in reality the 
handsome E. Peetersiana, and the author remarks :—‘ This superb plant 
was introduced by me in 1893, and flowered for the first time in Europe 
with me in 1894. The flowers were sent to Professor Baillon, who described 
the plant under the name of Eulophiella Hamelinii.” This name, however, 
so far as I can ascertain, has not been previously published, and, if so, it 
cannot supersede E. Peetersiana on the ground of priority, as the latter 
name dates from March, 1897. Professor Baillon, it may be noted, died 
on July 18th, 1895. The remaining species, marked as ‘‘ Eulophiella 
nouveau,” is said to have pure white sepals and petals, and the lip striped 
with vinous brown, and M. Hamelin remarks :—“ It is, I think, the famous 
plant which Professor Reichenbach has published under the name of 
Cymbidium Loise Chauvieri, and which the naturalist Humblot considered 
as the Queen of Orchids.” M. Hamelin, however, may not be aware that 
Cymbidium Loise Chauvieri is the so-called “ scarlet Cymbidium,” and 
probably identical with Eulophia Loise Chauvieri, which M. Humblot 
himself regards as none other than Eulophiella Elisabethe. What, how- 
ever, is of more immediate importance is that M. Hamelin has brought 
home life-sized, coloured drawings of his second and third species, made by 
a M. Trotter. That of E. Peetersiana—a plant which we now know—is 
sufficiently accurate in detail, and the sheet which contains that of the new 
species shows also a flowering branch of Vanilla Phalznopsis, of which, 
