258 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
UNRECORDED DISCOVERY OF EULOPHIELLA 
PEETERSIANA. 
THE most striking and interesting Orchid which appeared during 1896 was 
undoubtedly the remarkable Eulophiella Peetersiana, a member of a genus 
founded by Mr. R. A. Rolfe on the now well-known Eulophiella Elisabethe, 
first introduced by L’Horticulture Internationale, Brussels. 
M. Mocquerys, who was previously a collector for M. Godefroy Lebeuf, 
of Paris, made an agreement with M. Peeters, of Brussels, and left Europe 
for Sainte Marie de Madagascar without anticipating the discovery of such 
a magnificent plant as the one now under notice, and it is surprising what 
a number of collectors have for the last two centuries passed and stayed for 
a certain time in these regions without having previously noticed the most 
common plant of the Isle of Nattes, at the south of Sainte Marie. On this 
small isle, however, Mocquerys discovered Eulophiella Peetersiana, and 
another species which is supposed to be yet undetermined, bearing rather 
large white flowers, and on the coast of Madagascar just opposite Sainte 
Marie he found again E. Elisabethe—another definite and interesting fact. 
A friend of mine who is well known in the Orchid world, thought of 
sending a collector out to explore completely the Isle of Nattes, and before — 
finally arranging matters it occurred to him to look through some of the 
collections of the Jardin des Plantes Herbarium at Paris, when he found, 
not without great surprise, a well preserved specimen of Eulophiella 
Peetersiana, which had laid in the Herbarium for the last fifty years, and 
was still unidentified. The exact locality is indicated, so that there can be 
no doubt about the facts. This clearly shows the importance of preserving 
collections of dried specimens, though they should not remain for half-a- 
century without being looked over to see what they contain. 
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SOPHROCATTLEYA x QUEEN EMPRESS, 
A FLOWER of this superb hybrid, which received a First-class Certificate 
from the Royal Horticultural Society on July 25th last, has been sent by 
Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, with a brief note of its origin, showing that 
it was obtained by crossing Cattleya Mossiz with the pollen of Sophronitis 
grandiflora, and that the seed was sown as long ago as 1884. It combines 
well the characters of the two parents, having the more expanded sepals 
and petals of the Sophronitis parent, but approaching the Cattleya in its 
more convolute lip. The sepals and petals are bright rosy crimson, the 
latter being somewhat veined, and the lip yellow at the base, dotted with 
purple lines, and the lobes dark rosy purple. It is very beautiful, and 
we hope that it will prove to have a good constitution. 
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