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ISS PESCATOBOLLEA BELLA. oar 
HEN Reichenbach described Pescatorea bella, which appeared with 
Messrs. Veitch, in 1878 (Gard. Chron., 1878, i. p. 492), he remarked: 
‘‘ We have had nothing comparable in colour except Bollea ccelestis. I 
have a melancholy fear it is a mule between this and some Pescatorea. I 
cannot help it. There is not the least doubt of the two being totally 
distinct things. Bollea ccelestis has a very broad boat-shaped column with 
Fig. 9. PESCATOBOLLEA. 
a disc of rich hairs, and a great square callus; but, on the other hand, the 
sepals and petals have the same striking uncommon colours, though the 
broad purplish violet zones are more in the centre in Bollea ccelestis. 
As it is, we must wait and observe—laboremus ; there may come the day when 
we, or those who come afterwards, may get the necessary light.” We 
must still wait, so far as seeing the original specimen is concerned, but 
what is at least suspected to be the same plant afterwards appeared in the 
collection of Frau Ida Brandt, of Zurich, having being received from 
