148 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [Juny, 1917. 
In June, 1863, a plant flowered with Mr. John Day, who made a pen 
and ink sketch (Orch. Draw., ii. t. 47), and added the following interesting 
note: “‘Mr. Blunt, Messrs. Low’s collector, writes: The habitat of this plant 
is most peculiar—sometimes it is found terrestrial and in exposed sunny 
places, and at other times on the cooler parts of the Cordillera growing on 
trees on parts were decayed leaves have collected ; but still I should count 
it amongst the Orchids requiring a temperate climate, as in these spots it 
is to be found most frequently.” In May, 1896, Mr. Day painted it in 
colour (xix. t. 41), adding: ‘The plant is so much like Selenipedium 
caudatum that it is not easy to distinguish it therefrom. I believe it comes 
from some part of New Granada. It is very difficult to get exact informa- 
tion of the native habitats of Orchids. The nurserymen who send their 
collectors are very jealous of imparting any precise information.” 
An important contribution to the history of the plant was made by the 
collector Roezl, in 1888 (Orchidophile, i. p. 570). He remarked that it was 
found in various localities in New Granada, at altitudes of 4000 to 6000 feet, 
growing indifferently upon trees, on dead trunks, on rocks, or on the road 
side, but never in great abundance, perhaps a dozen or half a dozen plants 
being found in the same spot. He had found it on the route from 
Buenaventura to Cali, at the summit of the Cordillera, at the same height 
as Masdevallia Chimera. At Ocana, whence it had mostly been imported 
of recent years, it was known to the natives as Linda (the belle). In other 
localities it was rare, but he had met with it at Sonson, near Medellin, 
growing with innumerable Masdevallias and Odontoglossum_ luteopur- 
pureum ; near Frontino, with Miltonia vexillaria; and, lastly, at Guindio, 
on the high Cordillera of Cartago viego. These various localities were some 
eight days’ journey apart. He had been asked whether it was not a 
-vatiety of Cypripedium caudatum, but he was bound to reply in the 
negative, for although he had frequently found the Uropedium he had 
never met with C. caudatum. 
It may here be added that Consul Lehmann collected the plant on the 
Cordillera of Cali, growing on trees at 1000 to 2000 metres, and in the 
forest of Cajamarca, W. Andes of Rondanillo, at 1 500 to 2000 metres, and 
that Burke also met with it, when collecting for Messrs. Veitch, the 
specimen being simply localised Columbia. 
Further light has now been thrown on the probable origin of this 
remarkable Orchid. In 1886 a plant of Cypripedium caudatum in the 
establishment of Mr. William Bull, at Chelsea, produced a flower having 
three free sepals, three fertile anthers, and a curiously flattened lip, fairly 
intermediate between the normal lip and the lip of Uropedium (Gard. 
Chron., 1896, ii. pp. 268, 269, fig. 54). In June, 1891, a plant of ©. 
caudatum var. Wallisii in the collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Batt-r 
