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Guayra by-Moritz, and which is clearly identical with E. lividum. LE. 
tessellatum, however, is distinct. It was described by Bateman (Bot. Reg., 
1838, Misc. p. 7) from a plant which flowered at Knypersley, and which is 
said to have been sent from Guatemala by Mr. G. Ure Skinner. It was 
afterwards figured in the Botanical Magazine (t. 3638). The materials in 
Lindley’s Herbarinm afforded a clue to the confusion. To the sheet of E. 
tessellatum is added a sketch from a plant in the collection of Mr. George 
Barker, of Birmingham, and dried specimens collected at Oaxaca, S. 
Mexico, by Galeotti. These are correct, but, unfortunately, he also added 
two inflorescences received from Mr. S. Rucker which are identical with 
E. lividum. And on the sheet containing the latter he has added a dried 
specimen collected at Santa Martha, by Purdie, but wrongly added the 
name E. tessellatum, under which the specimen is erroneously cited. The 
two species are very similar in general appearance, but the Colombian 
plant is readily distinguished by the absence of side lobes to the lip, a 
difference recognised by Lindley when he placed the two in different groups, 
and it is-curious that he failed to notice his own confusion. E. lividum 
has shortly fusiform pseudobulbs, bearing two or three narrowly oblong 
leaves, and spikes of small flowers, the sepals and petals tessellated with 
brown on a green ground, and the lip pale yellow, with a rounded and very 
undulate front lobe, three rows of tubercules up the centre, and some white 
pubescence behind. R.A.R. 
6 
HE R.H.S. Red Cross Sale, of which particulars were given at page 
167, was held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, Westminster, on June 
20th and two following days, and was very successful, most of the lots 
offered being disposed of. A large number of Orchids had been presented 
by numerous donors, in many cases divisions of the original certificated 
plants, and some good prices were obtained, though a number of the 
commoner ones went for rather low figures. Prices naturally varied 
according to the size of the plants. The eighteen choice things presented 
by Sir George and Lady Holford realised as much as £275, these including 
Brassocattleya The King, 50 guineas, Lzliocattleya Golden Beauty, 30 gs.» 
and Miltonia vexillaria Snowflake, 25 gs. Other plants which sold well 
were Cattleya Warscewiczii Low’s var., 32 gs., Cypripedium Lucifer, 26 
gs., Cattleya Trianz Mooreana, 15 gs., Cypripedium Alcibiades magnificum, 
14 gs., and Odontioda Bradshawie, part of the plant for which Sir Jeremiah 
Colman gained the Silver Cup at the International Horticultural Exhibition 
held in New York in 1913, 14 gs. 
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