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issued a protest, stating that the two were quite different. The result is 
that C. Bungerothii is again recognised. Messrs. Linden, however, are 
equally unable to say what C. pileatum really is, and it is my deliberate 
opinion that it is nothing but C. Bungerothii, yet even two Reichenbachian 
descriptions fail to establish the point. The fact is, some of Reichenbach’s 
descriptions are almost worthless, as in one or two instances I have been 
able to compare them with the type plant and have found serious dis- 
crepancies. A certain amount of latitude must, of course, be allowed, 
especially when it is borne in mind that the original description of a species 
is often prepared from imperfect materials, and has to be subsequently 
amended, but when an author deliberately locks up his specimens from his 
contemporaries and successors, as Reichenbach has done, and they in 
consequence fail to. identify his species and re-describe them under 
different names, I think no more consideration should be shown to him 
than to the one who publishes names without any description at all. This 
question will certainly arise when the Reichenbachian Herbarium is opened, 
unless it is previously settled, for the examples above-mentioned are not at 
all likely to be isolated cases. 
To return, however, to Masdevallia trinema—at all events to the plant 
now figured as such, which is certainly M. Lowii—Consul Lehmann says 
that it occupies avery small range on the western mountains in the north 
of the Cauca, and of. Western Antioquia, in Columbia, growing on trees in 
thick damp woods, at an elevation of about 4,800 to 6,000 feet. It is rare, 
and generally selects those trees which border the banks of mountain 
streams and rivulets. At Frontino it always grows mixed with plants of 
M. Peristeria, M. nidifica, and M. Carderi, and the climate of its habitat is 
similar to that of M. Chimera, but a degree or two higher. It varies 
somewhat in the colour of the flowers. 
: R.A. ROLFE:; 
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CATASETUM x SPLENDENS WORTHINGTONIANUM. 
Another striking form of this polymorphic natural hybrid has appeared, 
of which a flower and photograph have been received from H. Worthington, 
Esq., Whalley Range, Manchester. It was obtained from Messrs. Linden’s 
importations. It has the structure of the typical form, but the basal half 
of the petals is strongly suffused with lurid purple, and the sepals less 
strongly so, while the basal part and sides of the lip are also strongly 
suffused with a similar colour, the front being white, and the spur yellow 
inside. The lip is less open than in C. Bungerothii. A form has also 
flowered with Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., which is exactly identical with C. 
X s. flavescens in shape, but the flowers are light green in colour. 
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