364 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
This is extremely interesting, though taken by itself it does not clear up 
the habitat of Cattleya labiata—which indeed is not mentioned—but now 
let us turn to Hooker’s Exotic Flora, where a figure of the plant is given 
(vol. iii., t. 157). Here we find the following note by Mr. Cattley :— 
‘The most splendid, perhaps, of all Orchideous plants, which blossomed 
for the first time in Britain in the stove of my garden in Suffolk, during 
1818, the plant having been sent to me by Mr. W. Swainson, during his 
visit to Brazil.””. The month was November, as stated by Lindley in his 
Collectanea, t. 33. 
| That this a note from one of Mr. Cattley’s letters is evident from the 
context—for the fact is not expressly stated, and the remark is not given in 
parenthesis. Dr. W. J. Hooker, however, goes on to say :— 
_. “ The individual here delineated is an offset from the parent plant just 
mentioned, and it flowered at the Glasgow Botanic Garden in November, 
1824, continuing in great beauty for several days. The agreeable odour, 
which Mr. Lindley mentions as having been perceptibly exhaled by the 
flowers of the specimens from which his figure in the Collectanea Botanica 
was taken, was not evident in the blossoms of the present individual, 
although Mr. Cattley’s plant was derived from the same source.” 
These records serve to establish the following facts :—Swainson arrived 
in Pernambuco about the end of December, 1816, and, owing to political 
disturbances, had to confine his collecting toa limited extent of country 
round the city of that name, where, however, he found so much new and 
striking that he was amply employed. On the restoration of tranquillity he 
quitted Pernambuco in June, 1817, having first dispatched all his collections, 
drawings, &c., to England. These included some “ parasitic plants” 
(among which Orchids were then included) for Dr. Hooker, and others for 
Mr. Cattley, and one of the latter was the splendid plant which flowered in 
November, 1818, and was sent to Lindley, who established a new genus for 
it, calling it Cattleya labiata. Two other plants sent by Swainson at the 
same time were Oncidium barbatum (Lindl. Coll. Bot., t. 27) and Catasetum 
Hookeri (I.c., t. 40). That these plants all came with the collections sent 
from Pernambuco is evident from Swainson’s account, for he only left Rio 
with the later ones in August, 1818, and in those slow sailing and coaching 
days there would not have been sufficient time to get plants from the latter 
home and in flower in such a short interval of time, whereas the earlier ones 
would have just had time to become established. 
It may be as well to anticipate a possible objection to the remark that 
Swainson’s locality has remained unknown. It is true that when this Catt- 
leya was re-introduced it was said to be from “ Swainson’s hunting ground,” 
but the remark only applied to Brazil in a general sense, and it is now well 
known that the plant was re-discovered quite independently of any infor- 
