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ship's beautiful tresses were changed into serpents ; nor are wanting the 

 scales with which her body was safely guarded. We believe that this 

 young lady was carried out of harm's way into the ocean of India by 

 Neptune, and that all they tell us about Perseus having cruelly killed her 

 is a fable ; for is not here the proof? " The species was introduced from 

 Singapore by Messrs. Loddiges. The next plate (t. 13) shows Maxillaria 

 cruenta (now known as Lycaste). It was introduced from Guatemala by 

 Mr. Skinner, and flowered with Sir C. Lemon at Carclew. Three other 

 remarkable novelties which we select for mention from this volume are 

 Cypripedium barbatum, Lycaste Skinneri, and Odontoglossum citrosmum. 



Cypripedium barbatum (t. 17) was described as "a native of the Straits 

 of Malacca, where Cuming found it on Mount Ophir," and the author 

 observed, " Messrs. Loddiges are, as far as I am aware, the only parsons 

 who have flowered it." Here, too, we find the historical passage by 

 Lindley :— " There is something in the habit of the Indian Lady's Slippers 

 so peculiar, that it was for a long time expected that they would be found 

 to possess characters sufficient to separate them from their allies." 

 Curiously enongh Lindley went on to point out the differences in habit 

 between the four types— the European and North American, the Indian, 

 the singular Tropical American C. Lindleyanum, and the no less curious 

 C. palmifolium, with the habit of a Sobralia— which are now recognised 

 as forming perfectly distinct genera, though he failed to discover the 

 peculiarities of organisation between them which are now known to exist. 



Maxillaria Skinneri (now known as Lycaste), which had been described 

 in 1840 from dried specimens, now showed itself in its true character, and 

 Bateman remarked :— " This, the facile princeps of all known Maxillarias, 

 has at length flowered in the collection of the Rev. John Clowes, with a 

 vigour and beauty that could not be exceeded in its native parents. . . . 

 It is a native of Guatemala, and is another of the brilliant discoveries 

 of the gentleman to whom I have ventured to dedicate it."— Botanical 

 Register, 1842, Misc., page 10. 



The beautiful Odontoglossum citrosmum, which had long been known to 

 science, also flowered in cultivation for the first time, and Lindley 

 remarked :— " This was the most remarkable novelty exhibited at the 

 garden of the Horticultural Society in July, 1842. It had been given 

 by Mr. Barker to T. Brocklehurst, Esq., of the Fence, from whose garden 

 —I.e., p. 60. It is figured at t. 3 of the next volume. 

 Chronicle for 1842 we find very little of importance 

 excepting reports of Shows, and not a single figure, 

 :es are suggestive. In a reply to J. T., Plymouth 

 treatment of newly imported Orchids, we find a few 

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