a. THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
appear to be an example of a seed germinating within the capsule itself. 
It would be interesting to know the age of the capsule, and whether it had 
opened before the young plant appeared. It is difficult to offer an 
explanation without knowing more particulars.—Ep. | 
EULOPHIELLA PEETERSIANA. 
THE history of this remarkable plant seems to come in small instalments. 
The followingenote by Mr. J. O’Brien appears in the Gardeners’ Chronicle 
for November 11th last (p. 353) :— 
“In the Gardeners’ Chronicle for 1876, i., p. 240, the late Professor 
Reichenbach described Grammatophyllum Rcemplerianum from a faded 
dried specimen furnished by M. Luddemann, of Paris, and obtained by him 
from M. Reempler, of Nancy, who had imported a few plants of it from 
Madagascar. The author was enthusiastic in his praise of the stately 
novelty, but was unable to give the colours, or finer details of the structure, 
by reason of the indifferent quality of the flowers on which he based his 
description. About the same time M. Roempler sold his plants, all of which 
were in a very poor condition, in London, and some half-dozen of the larger 
pieces, consisting of elongated, conical pseudo-bulbs, curving upwards 
distantly from stout rhizomes, came into my hands. The growth-buds of 
all were black and, as I found afterwards, dead; but I succeeded in keeping 
the stems alive for between three and four years, hoping that from some 
portion of them a growth might proceed, but the hope was never realised. 
I assume all of the importation failed likewise, for I never heard of one that 
grew. In the Gardeners’ Chronicle, March 20th, 1897, p. 182, Dr. Kranzlin 
described as Eulophiella Peetersiana, from material sent by M. Peeters, of 
Brussels, and Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, a giant Orchid which 
had been discovered by M. Mocoris (Moquerys] in the island of Madagascar. 
The description at once reminded me of my troublesome subject, Gramma- 
tophyllum Roemplerianum, and on seeing the plant in flower in Sir Trevor 
Lawrence’s collection, I had no doubt that it was the same thing, for it is 
scarcely likely that two such plants, distinct from each other, can exist in 
the same locality. I therefore place my ideas on the subject on record in 
the hope of giving some assistance in determining the specimen in 
Reichenbach’s herbarium named by him G. Roemplerianum.” 
Reichenbach’s note in question is as follows :—‘‘ Unexpected pleasures 
are the best ones. Would you have believed in a new large-flowered 
Grammatophyllum, with a lip resembling that of Phains tuberculosus, but 
without its basilar fur? The flowers are larger than those of the favourite 
Grammatophyllum Ellisii, Lindl., scarcely smaller than those of the three 
heroes of the beautiful genus, macranthum, speciosum, Wallisii. There it 
