282 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [SEPTEMBRR, 1915. 
where the latter grows in touch with C. labiata, and he added: “ The year 
after I had a terrible time over it, but could not get one.” The point will 
be understood when it is remarked that C. Victoria- Reginia was not then 
known to be a natural hybrid, and that it was hoped to obtain an 
importation of it. 
In the early nineties, before the advent of so many hybrid Leeliocattleyas, 
“‘ Lelia elegans,” as the plant was then called, was much sought after, and 
Forget visited the district and sent home consignments, among which 
many fine forms are said to have been found, including a pure white one, 
which has since been lost. This would be a form of Lzeliocattleya Schil- 
leriana, which was at one time included under L.-c. elegans, and M. Forget 
afterwards informed us that both are found in the island of Santa 
Catherina, where Lelia purpurata grows in company with Cattleya 
intermedia and C. Leopoldii. 
M. Forget also rediscovered Lelia Jongheana, a plant that had long been 
known from very scanty materials, and sent home a considerable importa- 
tion. It was found in the district of Itabira do Campo, and M. Forget 
states that Cattleya bicolor; Walkeriana, Loddigesii, and Lelia prestans 
grow in touch with it, in the State of Minas Geraes, and that all are cool 
Stowers. More recently a large importation of Lzlia Gouldiana was 
obtained through him. 
Twice M. Forget went to Peru, chiefly in search of the rare Cattleya 
Rex. The first consignments were shipwrecked and lost, but the next 
time, notwithstanding the long journey, they arrived in fairly good 
condition. Forget described the plant to Messrs. Sander as ‘“ flowering 
profusely, on bulbs as large as Lelia purpurata, and constituted one of the 
finest sights he ever saw.” On these trips he collected a large number of 
other Orchids, and among them the original Anguloa uniflora, described by 
Ruiz and Pavan as early as 1794, and for which another plant had long 
done duty in gardens, while the true plant had acquired the new name of 
A. eburnea. A number of novelties also appeared in this collection, 
showing that the Orchids of Peru are not yet exhausted. 
These are only a few examples of M. Forget’s activities. How extensive 
Natural Hybrid Cattleyas which appeared at pp. 293-296 of our fifteenth 
se These include two which we do not remember to 
ave seen, namely, a pretty little hybrid between Lelia harpophylla and L. 
pumila (p. 295), and one between C. gigas Sanderiana and C. Trian® 
bogotensis (p. 293). The latter will be a form of C. Ballantiana, raised by 
hand. His remarks on Odontoglossum crispum at pp. 326-328 of the 
same volume further show how keen an observer he was, and it is to be 
