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mercantile firm in the same country. He therefore addressed a letter to 
Mr. Skinner, craving his assistance, and received an unexpectedly favour- 
able reply. ‘‘ From the moment he received our letter,” remarks Bateman, 
“he has laboured almost incessantly to drag from their hiding places the 
forest treasures of Guatemala, and transfer them to the stoves of his native 
land. In pursuit of this object there is scarcely a sacrifice which he has not 
made, or a danger or hardship which he has not braved, . - + - he has 
never suffered an opportunity to escape him of adding to the long array of 
his botanical discoveries. And, assuredly, he has not laboured in vain, for 
he may truly be said to have been the means of introducing a greater 
number of new and beautiful Orchidacee into Europe than any one 
individual of his own or any other nation.” 
The last plate in the work (t. 40) is a most remarkable one, showing 
what ought to have been the purple male flowers and green female flowers 
of Cycnoches Egertonianum on the same pseudobulb, though the latter for 
some reason are represented with the long slender column of the male 
flower of C. ventricosum, and it has been suggested that this arose through 
the flowers having been withered when drawn, and having been restored by 
the artist with the help of a previous drawing. At all events both kinds of 
flowers are now well known, and the history of the question has been 
recorded in detail. (Rolfe in Orch. Rev., iii., pp. 233-236, and vi, pp. 57-58). 
Another important work commenced in 1837, namely Lindley’s Sertum 
Orchidaceum: a wreath of the most beautiful Orchidaceous Flowers, the 
first plate of which, Stanhopea devoniensis, is dated September, 1837. It 
is folio in size, and contains 49 plates with a frontispiece, the whole 
representing sixty-one species, and the work is dedicated to the most noble 
William Spencer Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire. A. good many of the 
species figured had already been described, but among novelties we may 
mention the Brazilian Lelia cinnabarina (t. 28), which was introduced by 
and flowered with Mr. Young, of Epsom; Aérides quinquevulnera (t. 30), 
introduced by Cuming from the Philippines and flowered with Messrs. 
Loddiges; Stanhopea Wardii (t. 20), sent from Venezuela by Mr. Ward, and 
flowered with Messrs. Loddiges; and the remarkable Huntleya violacea, 
now referred to Bollea, sent from Guiana to the same firm 
_ The first number of this work contained some excellent directions for 
the cultivation of Orchids, drawn up by Mr. Paxton, of whom Lindley 
remarked :—‘‘ The success with which epiphytes are cultivated by Mr. 
Paxton is wonderful, and the climate in which this is effected, instead of 
being so hot and damp that the plants can only be seen with as much peril 
as if one had to visit them in an Indian jungle, is as mild and delightful as 
that of Madeira. Asa luxuriance of growth, never have they been seen in 
their native woods in such perfect beauty.” 
