196 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
DIES ORCHIDIANZ. 
A cuRIoUs point has arisen respecting the beautiful Lelia purpurata Annie 
Louise, for which Captain Law-Schofield received a First-class certificate at 
the recent Temple Show. Mr. Statter remarks :—‘‘I believe it was explained 
by Mr. Cypher at tte Temple Show, who was the original owner, that the 
certificated plant ot L. purpurata Annie Louise was the same variety as that 
shown by me as L. purpurata Statteriana. The question arises, what is 
this variety in future to be styled, as there are still two more portions of the 
original plant, one with Mr. Schofield, the exhibitor of the certificated plant 
referred to, and the other with Mrs. Briggs-Bury, at Accrington? I hold 
that Statteriana is the right name, because I exhibited my plant at Manchester 
Botanical Gardens in 1897 and 1898, and on a later date under that name; 
and I received a First-class certificate at Manchester under that name, L. p. 
Statteriana.”’—Gard. Chron., June 17, p. 389. 
The Editor replies :—We fear that there are many similar cases, although 
examination of the two plants referred to at the show failed to prove con- 
clusively that they were the same, Mr. Statter’s flower being smaller and 
not so finely developed as Mr. Schofield’s. At the show, another complica- 
tion arose from the suggestion that L. p. Mrs. R. I. Measures, an inflorescence 
of which was present for comparison, was also the same as L. p. Annie Louise, 
and certainly its well-developed flowers seemed nearer than those of Mr. 
Statter’s plant. All three might have been taken from the same stock — 
(though Mr. Measures’ plant was taken from an independent specimen), and 
cultivation has made the difterence. 
“If purchasers would honestly retain the names under which plants were 
bought, and vendors would faithfully sell all the parts of the same specimen 
under the same name given, before the plants were distributed, such con- 
fusion would be materially diminished. We fear that complications of the 
kind are more often intentional than accidental. In the face of the present 
difficulty, it will be better to adhere to the name given at the Temple 
Show.”’—1.c. 
Another contribution to the question appears in the same issue, in the 
report of the Manchester and North of England Orchid Society :—Thomas 
Statter, Esq., Stand Hall, Whitefield, exhibited a fine form of Lelia 
purpurata, named Statteriana; but an objection was entered against this 
name, as it is said to be precisely the same as one exhibited in London 
under the name of L. p. Annie Louise. The plant was thereupon given a 
First-class certificate under the latter name.—lI.c., P- 403. 
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