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his collections would go to Kew; but latterly he was strongly prejudj 
against those who had taken up the study of Orchids in this coun 
W.B.H.” 
Here stands revealed the crime in all its full enormity. In a coun 
where Orchids had been grown to a greater extent than in any other, som 
person or persons had dared to study them. It mattered not that it was} 
country that had facilated his own researches in every possible way, 
from which he had received every kindness from the hands of his illustrious _ 
predecessor, from Kew, and from practically the whole Orchid industry, 
and from which indeed the bulk of the materials in his possession had been 
obtained ; the naked fact stood revealed—they had invaded the secret 
preserves, and the full penalty of excommunication should be effected. 
Pp 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CARINIFERUM, Rchb. f-—This distinct Central 
American Odontoglossum, which has become very rare in cultivation, 
affords an example of how a name may sometimes go wrong, for it is the 
plant figured at t. 4919 of the Botanical Magazine as O. hastiferum var. 
fuscatum, Hook., and in looking through an old collection the other day 
we found it. still doing duty under the wrong name. This plant is 
said to have been collected in Venezuela by Mr. Birschell, and flowered 
with Messrs. Jackson & Sons, Kingston Nursery, in March, 1856. It is 
added : “It proves to be a variety of the Odontoglossum figured by us at 
tab. 4272, the O. hastiferum of Dr. Lindley, with the sepals and petals of a 
uniform brown colour in the inside, instead of being green with transverse 
brown lines.” But a glance at the very characteristic lip will show its 
identity with O. cariniferum, Rchb. f., a species discovered at Chiriqui, by 
Warscewicz, in 1848, and discribed some four years later (Bot. Zeit., 1852, 
Pp. 638). Reichenbach afterwards remarked: ‘‘ There is scarcely a doubt 
that the information obtained from Mr. Jackson was erroneous. The 
specimen came from that surprising sale of Mr. Bridges, April, 1856, and 
the plant, indeed, was living, and not a bad one.” When the species first 
flowered in this country is uncertain, but there is a garden specimen in 
Lindley’s Herbarium, with a painting of a single flower, labelled ‘“ Hort. 
Leach,” but it is undated. At all events the species remained rare until 
1870, when Messrs. Veitch received a small importation from Costa Rica, 
where it is said to occur in the forest on the mountain slopes faciag the 
Pacific, growing on the tops of trees in company with O. CErstedii and O. 
Schlieperianum, And Mr, Day, who purchased some plants from an 
importation sold at Stevens’ in March, 1870, and who figured it in March, 
1871 (Orch. Draw., xiii. t. 29, 32), added that the importation contained 
also Pescatorea cerina, Trichopilia coccinea, and Oncidium cheirophorum. 
We do not remember any recent importation of Chiriqui Orchids.—R.A.R. 
