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Pha.enopsis just mentioned. From the time of Lindley’s death he became 
a reg.lar contributor, the connection being continued down to May, 1889, 
4ehen he also joined the great majority. What this means can best be 
judged when we recall the fact that it was.a period of unexampled activity, 
when importations were literally pouring in, most of them containing 
novelties which, as they flowered, had to be named, classified, and 
described, so that the information might be available to all whom it might 
concern. And it has been remarked as curious that although this great 
activity was largely British, no one here was found competent or willing to 
continue the work so long carried on by the illustrious Lindley, and the 
materials had to be transmitted to Hamburg, with results that have been 
seen in the tragic sequel. 
Reichenbach contributed the account of the Orchidacee to the sixth 
volume of Walper’s Annales, which appeared between 1861 and 1865. It 
was mainly a compilation of his own and Lindley’s descriptions, published 
after the latter’s Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants. It, incorporated 
very freely the keys to the species given in Lindley’s Folia Orchidacea, 
and also his notes, the original part of the work chiefly consisting in the 
reduction of numerous genera, a point to be considered presently. 
One can only mention a few of Reichenbach’s papers, which were very 
numerous, upwards of eighty being enumerated in the Royal Society’s 
Catalogue of Scientific Papers. Among the later ones, however, we may 
mention accounts of the Orchids collected in Angola by Dr. Welwitsch, in 
Assam by Gustav Mann, in Moulmein by Parish, and in the Andes by 
Roezl, Wallis, and others, the sources of these and other papers being the 
publications Flora, Linnea, the Hamburg Garten-Zeitung, the Transactions 
of the Linnean Society, and others. Nor must we omit that he worked 
up the Orchids for Seeman’s Flora Vitiensis and for the Botany of the 
Herald. 
There remain a few independent works. His Beitrage zu einer 
Orchideenkunde Central America’s appeared in 1866, and contained accounts 
of the Orchids collected by Warscewizc, CErsted, Wendland, and Hoffmann, 
all containing many novelties, some of which were illustrated in a series of 
ten plates. Two years later came his Bettrage zur Orchideankunde, giving 
an account of a monster of Selenipedium caudatum, and of the genera 
Aganisia and Saundersia, all being illustrated. In 1871 appeared his 
Beitrage Systematische Pflanzenkunde, containing an account of the 
Australian Orchids collected by Robert Brown and others, this being 
dedicated to George Bentham. 
Lastly we have his Otia botanica Hamburgensia, which appeared in two 
parts, in 1878 and 1881. This contained an account of the Orchids 
collected in Ecuador by Lehmann, in Cambodia by Godefroy Lebeuf, in 
