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one of them from an old Orchid importer who has not improbably suffered 
in the past from erroneous records. At all events he expresses satisfaction 
in seeing some of the confusions cleared up. It has not always been the 
case, especially if some unavoidable change of name has been involved, and 
we have never forgotten a criticism by one who is no longer interested in 
Orchidology that ‘‘such mistakes should never be found out.” And it was 
enquired how it came about that so many such mistakes were made. 
The reasons, we fear, were many and various, and perhaps it may be 
enough to say that the authors did the best with the time and materials at 
their disposal. It requires a little inside knowledge to appreciate the 
difficulties involved in finding the correct name of some scrap of an Orchid 
that may be sent for naming. Imperfect descriptions or those made from 
undeveloped or abnormal materials, and these often scattered through a 
multitude of books and pamphlets, drawings with erroneous details, and the 
absence of authentic specimens are responsible for many mistakes, and 
some typical examples may be seen in the present issue. 
A novelty in Orchids appears to have been discovered, a rival of the 
celebrated ‘‘ Corona Keffordii,’’ and of the Scarlet Butterfly Orchid which 
our readers will doubtless remember became extinct as the result of a most 
lamentable tragedy. In a tale entitled ‘‘ Below Zero,” in the Windsor 
Magazine for July, Mr. Fred. M. White introduces us to “ the priceless 
Gynandria Monogynia,” the gem of Lord Rayburn’s magnificent collection. 
It is said to be ‘6a marsh Orchid from South Africa, and the only one of its 
kind yet discovered.” ‘‘I prefer them,” said his Lordship, “to the 
epiphytes, exquisite as they are: and that, of course, is a cypripedium.” It 
appears to have “a long spike of bloom that shot upwards a foot or more 
in height in a series of shaded mauve blossoms with centres and cups of 
virgin gold: the exquisite mass clung to the stem and trembled like a cloud 
of butterflies.” A Cypripedium from South Africa would indeed be a 
novelty, and with such colours! We regret that we have not yet made its 
acquaintance. 
ODONTOGLOsSUM PESCATOREI VAR. SHORTII.—A distinct and pretty 
form of Odontoglossum Pescatorei is sent from the collection of Geo. 
Short, Esq., of Wallasey, Cheshire. It was raised from an ordinary O. 
Pescatorei fertilised with pollen from the richly-blotched O. P. Veitch- 
ianum, the cross being made in 1g12, and there are five other seedlings 
still to flower. It is quite typical in shape, and has a few light violet spots 
on the centre of the petals, and about twice as many on the sepals, with a 
pair of larger blotches on the lip. The plant is in a three-inch pot, and 
carries a five-flowered spike, so that it should improve considerably. 
