106 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
CATASETUM WARSCEWICZII. 
This extremely rare and interesting Catasetum has just flowered in 
Messrs. F. Sander & Co.’s Bruges establishment. It was originally dis- 
covered by Warscewicz, but introduced by Mr. Skinner, from Panama, and 
flowered in the collection of J. D. Llewelyn, Esq., at Penllergare, in April, 
1850. It was described and figured by Lindley (Paxt. Fl. Gard., i., p- 45, fig. 
29), who remarked :—‘“‘ This has found its way into cultivation under the 
name of Warczewitzia, Mr. Skinner having supposed the genus to be new, and 
desiring to give it to the bold and indefatigable naturalist who discovered it. 
We quite agree with Mr. Skinner that if patience and unwearied industry, 
courage that never quails before danger, and enthusiasm which despises 
difficulty, should give a naturalist a claim to a genus, Mr. Warczewitz most 
eminently has one. But he must wait for another opportunity, the plant 
that was given him being undoubtedly a Catasetum, and nearly related to 
C. discolor. As a-species it is perfectly distinct from all others; the 
flowers, which grow in a close pendulous raceme, consist of roundish ovate 
sepals and petals, and a helmeted lip which spreads into a thin three-lobed 
limb, the middle lobe of which divides into two diverging fringed halves. 
They are pale green, with bright emerald green veins, and though not gaudy 
are extremely pretty. Their charm consists, however, in their delicious 
fragrance, which is quite equal to that of Aérides odoratum.” It grows in 
mangrove swamps, on the branches of Rhizophora, and the racemes bear 
from eight to eleven flowers. Although not a distinct genus, it belongs to a 
small and very distinct section of Catasetum, characterised by the male 
flowers being without antenne. C. Russellianum is probably the only other 
member of the group now in cultivation. One pretty little species is C. 
roseum, Rchb. f., a native of Brazil, which flowered with the Rey. John. 
Clowes, in 1845, and which Lindley made into a distinct genus under the 
name of Clowesia rosea (Bot. Reg., 1845, t. 39). There are some half- 
a-dozen others still very imperfectly known. The female flowers of this 
section are still unknown. R. A 
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DENDROBIUM NOBILE ALBIFLORUM. 
I send you flowers of Dendrobium nobile Schreederianum and D. n. 
Cypheri, which you will see are identical, and we have bloomed the same 
thing under the name of D. n. albiflorum. Will you please say which is 
correct ? It is a pity that varietal names should be given in this way, and 
very confusing to those who like to have them correct. Varietal names 
are, in my opinion, far too numerous with many species. In the case of 
D. nobile there are, no doubt, several which richly deserve a varietal name, 
and perhaps the enclosed is one of them. The recent importations have, 
I believe, yielded many varieties of great merit in many collections. It has 
been so here, but the only one which we have given a name to is a very 
