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Concluded from page 154). 
MISTAKE of another kind is seen when an Orchid is described from 
A some erroneous locality, and this in some cases has led to the 
imposition of an incorrect name, as in the case of Zygopetalum africanum, 
Hook. (Bot. Mag., t. 3812). Sir William Hooker remarked: ‘I think 
there can be no question on the propriety of referring this plant to 
Zyyopetalum, the first of the genus that has been discovered inhabiting the 
Old World. It was ‘sent by Dr. Whitfield from Sierra Leone to the 
Woburn collection, whence Mr. Forbes has obligingly transmitted the 
present flowering specimen in December, 1839." Shortly afterwards 
Lindley pointed out that the plant was identical with Odontoglossum 
bictoniense (Bot. Reg., 1840, t. 66), and he added: ‘“ Most assuredly it 
never came from Sierra Leone. Those who have charge of imported plants 
ought to be very careful that they make no mistakes regarding so very 
important a subject.” The species was really introduced from Guatemala 
by Mr. G. Ure Skinner, and was originally described and figured by 
Bateman under the name of Cyrtochilum bictoniense (Orch. Mex. & Guat., 
t. 6), from materials grown in the collection of Lord Rolles, Bicton, near 
Exeter, in April, 1839, a circumstance commemorated in the specific name. 
It ultimately became Odontoglossum bictoniense, Lindl. 
A very curious confusion centres round the pretty little Odontoglossum 
nevium. When the plant was originally described and figured (Paxt. Ft. 
-Gard., i. p. 87, t. 18), Lindley remarked: ‘‘ The plant before us was sent to 
England several years since by Sir R. Schomburgk, and was exhibited by 
Mr. Loddiges at one of the spring meetings of the Horticultural Society 
in the present year.” (This would make the habitat British Guiana, which 
-was Clearly intended, for in the Folia Orchidacea he added, ‘‘ Wild in 
Demerara, Schomburgk,” which is erroneous). He also mentioned 4 
supposed variety which flowered with Messrs. Rollisson in June, 1847, and 
this was correctly named, as proved by a flower and a water-colour drawing 
preserved in his own Herbarium. But he also included a specimen 
collected by Funck & Schlim, at St. Lazaro and La Pena, in the province 
of Truxillo, Venezuela, said to have a yellow lip spotted with crimson, 
which, he remarks, ‘‘ appears to be the same species.”” This is a mistake, 
for the plant is a form of what he had already described as Odontoglossum 
odoratum. In the Folia Orchidacea Lindley added a variety majus, based 
-on a plant collected in the province of Pamplona, New Grenada, by Linden. 
‘This, again, is different, being O. gloriosum, Linden & Rchb. f. 
