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vidual who has not only introduced this, but many other new and rare 
plants to our gardens, and who cultivates them with great success.” 
Among the novelties figured and described in the Botanical Register for 
1826 may be mentioned :—Eria rosea (t. 978), sent to the Horticultural 
Society by Mr. J. D. Parkes in 1824, and flowered at Chiswick in October 
of the following year; Megaclinium falcatum (t. 989), sent from Sierra 
Leone by Mr. George Don in 1822, and flowered, for the first time, in April, 
1826, in the stove at Chiswick, where it is said to grow ‘“‘ more readily than 
most of its compatriots, which are usually extremely impatient of cultiva- 
tion” ; Eulophia streptopetala (t. 1002), which flowered in Mr. Colville’s 
Nursery in March, 1826; Oncidium pubes (t. 1007), sent from Rio de 
Janeiro by David Douglas in 1824, and flowered at Chiswick in March, 
1826 ; and Spiranthes grandiflora (t. 1043), sent home with the preceding, 
and flowered at Chiswick in October, 1826. Catasetum cristatum was also 
figured for the first time (t. 966), and is interesting on account of the first 
notice of dimorphism among the flowers, for Lindley speaks of ‘‘a curious 
monster of this plant which we observed on an individual in the Horticul- 
tural Society’s Garden. Among flowers of the ordinary structure, two or 
three others were observed in which the labellum was precisely of the same 
nature as that of Catasetum tridentatum, that is to say, destitute of the 
crested appendages, and perfectly galeate and naked.” Lindley not only 
failed to see the significance of the phenomenon, but afterwards (in 1837) 
stated that he could not believe his own words. The plant had been sent 
from Bahia in 1823 by G. Don, and flowered at Chiswick in August, 1824. 
The year 1827 was marked by still more notable additions. In the 
Botanical Register the first species of Sephronitis was figured, the name 
being written Sopronia, until it was discovered that the latter had already 
been used. Sophronia cernua (t. 1129) is said to have been “‘ found upon a 
tree at Botofogo, three miles from Rio de Janeiro, by William Harrison, Esq., 
by whom it was transmitted to Mrs. Arnold Harrison, of Aigburth, near 
Liverpool, whence it was obligingly sent with a sketch, in December, 1826.” 
Oncidium divaricatum (t. 1050) was sent to the Horticultural Society by 
A. J. Hatherly, Esq., Vice-Consul at Rio, and bloomed at Chiswick in 
October, 1826. Speaking of Brazilian Orchids, Lindley remarked that 
‘almost every epiphyte proves, upon its first appearance in our gardens, to 
be new to science.” 
In the third volume of Hooker’s Exotic Flora (dated 1827) we find :— 
Gongora atropurpurea (t. 178), sent from Trinidad by Baron de Schack, 
and flowered at the Liverpool Botanic Garden in June, 1825; Dendrohium 
calceolaria (t. 184), also “communicated from the rich collection of 
Orchideous plants at Liverpool by Messrs. Shepherds, having been sent 
from the East Indies by Dr. Carey in 1820”; Epidendrum ellipticum 
