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remarked that it naturally stood near O. reflexum and the allied Mexican 
species. Some ten years later Lindley reduced it as a variety of O. 
Batemanianum (O. B. spilopterum, Lindl. Fol. Orch., Oncid., p. 52), which 
was extremely unfortunate, as that species is a member of another group. 
Had the plant remained in cultivation it is probable that the mistake would 
sooner or later have been detected, but it was soon almost or quite lost: 
sight of, and when in 1892 it did re-appear it received a new name. In 
that year it flowered with Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, having 
been introduced from South Brazil by M. Vicomte de St. Leger. I 
immediately saw that it belonged to Lindley’s group Tetrapetala 
micropetala, being allied to O. bifolium, and as the group contained no 
species like it I re-described it under the name of O. Saintlegerianum (Gard. 
Chron., 1892, ii., p. 582). It is rather curious that I did not detect 
Lindley’s error at the outset, because on first seeing Messrs. Sander’s plant 
I immediately thought of the figure of O. spilopterum, but on looking up 
the books and finding that Lindley had ultimately made it a variety of O. 
Batemanianum, belonging to a different group, I thought that the two 
must be different, even after Mr. J. O’Brien recorded his suspicions to the 
contrary (Gard. Chron., 1893, 1., pp. I0, 194, 227). Examination of 
Lindley’s type specimen, however, confirms the identity of O. Saintleger- 
ianum with O. spilopterum, and also its distinctness from O. Batemanianum, 
as above pointed out. It is a decidedly handsome species, and very 
unusual in its brilliant contrast of crimson and yellow. Particulars of its 
habitat have already been given in these pages (Vol. I., p. 6). 
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AN AMATEUR’S NOTES. 
The first flowers of Cattleya labiata announced the advent of autumn, 
and now this brilliant acquisition is flowering in full force. It is wonderful 
how variable it is, especially in colour, and I have been a little interested in 
_ looking up one or two of the original figures, and have succeeded in finding 
almost an exact match among recent introductions. There is not the 
shghtest doubt that we have now the long-lost plant, and in quantities never 
seen before. The only other Cattleya coming on in quantity is C. 
Bowringiana, and this is just opening out splendidly. The flowers are 
rather small, but they make up in quantity what they lack in size, and the 
plant grows with the utmost freedom. Still it is a little overshadowed by 
its brilliant compeer. 
The autumn Cypripediums are coming on well. C. Spicerianum is out, 
side by side, with its new and brilliant ally, C. Charlesworthii, whose 
flowers are not so lasting, but are much more variable both in shape and 
