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triumphans. In another spot I found in great quantity O. gloriosum and 
O. X Ruckerianum. The latter were generally poor varieties, and emitted 
for the most part a perfume of hawthorn, which to me appeared to indicate 
a cross between O. X Ruckerianum and O. gloriosum. 
The third region is that where the Cordillera extendsitself towards La 
Mesa, Arbelaiy, and Pasca, having Fusagasuga for its centre. From this 
region come some beautiful O. x Wilckeanum, and the natural hybrids of O. 
crispum which have the flowers spotted and blotched with violet. The O. 
crispum found in this region have the flowers “ star shaped,’ and without 
substance enough for cut flowers. It grows there in certain spots in 
company with a distinct type of O. luteopurpureum, while O. gloriosum, O. 
Lindleyanum and O. mirandum abound there with the same profusion as in 
all the other Cordilleras before mentioned. 
DIES ORCHIDIANZA. 
A cuRIous fact seems to have come out respecting the remarkable 
Eulophiella Peetersiana, namely that it was originally collected some half- 
a-century ago (see note at page 258), and has laid at Paris ever since, 
without attracting the least attention. It is certainly strange, but the facts 
may be accepted, for it seems impossible that anyone could be mistaken 
about the recognition of so distinct a plant. It would be interesting to 
know a little more about the circumstances of its original discovery, and 
what collectors have been there since, as suggested. I hope now that the 
habitat is known we shall not have a raid made upon it, until the poor 
plant is exterminated. The Isle de Nattes is a small place, and one can 
only hope that the plant is as common as would appear from the note. 
Two other scraps of information come out in the same note. One is 
that another species of Eulophiella, having large white flowers, also exists 
on the same small island, and the other that the now well-known E. 
Elisabeth grows on the opposite coast of Madagascar. What do not such 
facts portend? If such striking plants have so long escaped recognition, 
what other novelties may there not be in the district yet undiscovered? In 
the face of the present discovery it seems most unlikely that the locality is 
yet exhausted. 
Mention of the habitat of Eulophiella Elisabethz recalls the history of 
that interesting plant (see my notes on the subject, vol. iii. pp. 101, 231)- 
We know that there were a few “ young and very small plants left,” and I 
suppose they have grown “ large enough to gather” by this time. 
Whether any were gathered does not yet appear, but there would be the 
