62 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [FEBRUARY, IQI1. 
(6) When the name ends in a consonant, the letters 7 are added (thus, 
Magnusii from Magnus, Ramondii from Ramond), except when the word 
ends in er, when 7 is added (example, Kerneri from Kerner). 
This is an attempt to secure uniformity of practice which we think 
should be adopted, for it agrees in the main with the old rules of euphony 
which have been previously discussed (O.R., v. p. 300-301 ; Vill. pp. 235- 
238). The diversity of practice seen in such names as Vanda Bensonii and 
Thunia Bensonie, Odontoglossum Lehmanni and Phaius Mannii are 
rather berwildering. We would point out, however, that y final should be 
treated as a vowel thus, Lindleyt. 
These rules only apply to modern personal names, for which no Latin 
rule exists. But they follow pretty closely the genius of Latin construction, 
and the two exceptions pointed out are in conformity with Latin precedent. 
The original spelling of the name commemorated is to remain unaltered 
except as to the suffix. 
VANDA CCERULEA VAR. WRIGLEYI. 
A pisTINcT and beautiful Vanda has appeared in the collection of O. O. 
Wrigley, Esq., Bridge Hall, Bury, which Mr. Rogers states flowered among 
some V. ccerulea imported by Messrs. Mansell & Hatcher, Rawdon, Leeds, 
in the spring of last year, and is identical with V. coerulea in habit. The 
flower is rather smaller than in the species named, the sepals and petals 
rather narrower, pure white, the lip rose pink, and the spur proportionately 
rather long and slender. It is so different from the ordinary V. ccerulea 
that one at first regards it as distinct, possibly some natural hybrid, yet it is 
not at all clear what combination would produce it. There is no resemblance 
to V. Moorei in habit, nor yet in the shape of the lip and spur, and without 
these a certain resemblance in colour seems of little importance. We wrote 
to Messrs. Mansell & Hatcher as to what other species came in the same 
importation, and they reply: ‘‘ You can take it as certain that Vanda 
ccerulea, Kimballiana, pumila, Amesiana, Bensonii, ccerulescens, Moorei, 
Aérides crassifolium, and I’Ansonii all occur within a day’s journey of the 
collector. V. Bensonii certainly grows among the lot, and sometimes comes 
mixed with V. coerulea, but they are easily picked out. Ifthe plant you 
received came from us as V. ccerulea you can depend it resembles it very 
closely.” There is evidently something more to be found out about these 
Burmese Vandas, which have yielded two or three other anomalous forms. 
The occurrence of V. Bensonii among V. ccerulea explains the origin of the 
natural hybrid V. Charlesworthii. Perhaps it will be best to regard the 
present form provisionally as an anomalous variety of V. coerulea, but we 
wish our hybridists would cross the _— with V. Kimballiana and V. 
Bensonii, and let us know the result. Aa 
