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HE statement quoted in the Orchid Review (xxiii. pp. 306, 330) from the 
Obituary notice of the late Mr. E. Lonsdale, as printed in the Florist’s 
Exchange, of New York, that Mr. Lonsdale was the introducer of Cypri- 
pedium Sanderianum, is, of course, easily disproved, but it may be 
interesting to give the facts on which the erroneous report was clearly 
based. 
In the autumn of 1892 Messrs. Sander held an auction in New York (at 
which the writer was present) of the newly-introduced Cattleya labiata 
under its real name. Mr. Lonsdale was not present, but sent to the rooms 
a plant of one of the then quite new yellow forms of C. insigne for an 
opinion, and possible sale. C. insigne Sandere had flowered a year 
previously in the F. L. Ames collection, and had been exhibited in Boston, 
and it was a question to be decided what the variety submitted by Mr. 
Lonsdale really was. Mr. A. Dimmock was conducting the sale for 
Messrs. Sander, and he at once said the plant was C. insigne Ernestii, 
there being very distinct spots on the dorsal sepal, with practically no 
coloration. It was certainly not C. insigne Sandere nor C. i. Sander- 
ianum. There were several flowers on the plant at the time of exhibition. 
The subsequent history of the plant is obscure, and the lapse of years seems 
to have made possible the mixing of names which do not correspond with 
the records. The above is submitted with the hope of clearing the matter 
up, and also attesting to the enthusiasm of the late E. Lonsdale as an 
Orchid cultivator, who, if with us, would certainly not lay claim to that 
which did not belong to him. E. O. ORPET. 
Walden, Lake Forest, Illinois, U.S.A. 
(We thank Mr. Orpet for this interesting note, which shows that the 
record arose through some inexplicable blunder. It is now quite clear that 
Mr. Lonsdale’s plant could not have been found in an imported batch of C. 
Lawrenceanum. Mr. Orpet’s description tallies well with C. insigne 
Ernestii, which appeared about that time. It would be interesting to trace 
what became of Mr. Lonsdale’s plant.—EbD.] 
CYPRIPEDIUM SANDERIANUM. 
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CATTLEYA S1GURD.—I notice that the hybrid from Cattleya Dowiana X 
€. Enid (a synonym of C. Adonis) is called in England C. Luegee. I 
raised and flowered the same hybrid some years ago, and named it Cattleya 
Sigurd, and it received a Certificate de Merite at Paris on October roth, rgr2. 
Brunoy, France. Cu. MARON. 
[From the report of the meeting (Journ. Soc. Nat. Hort. France, 1912, 
