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returning to Europe, he sent these, together with complete information 
and drawings to Reichenbach, but he has never heard anything further of 
them, and now they are locked up in the Reichenbachian Herbarium, to 
remain there, sealed from the world, for the next twenty-five years. In the 
meantime it is quite probable that C. D., E. F., and others may rediscover 
these new plants in their native wilds, and secure living or herbarium 
specimens of them, and submit them to the authorities at Kew for 
identification of name, and gain the credit of being the original discoverers. 
This is very galling, and ill requites the dangers, privations, and sickness 
A. B. underwent, his enthusiasm in the field, and his passionate love for 
Orchids. But it is a stinging lesson—it teaches us how unsafe it is to trust 
our eggs in any one man’s private basket. Had Kew, or some other noble, 
liberal, public institution of the kind been entrusted with the identification 
and classification of Orchids, no such injustice as that done to A. B. could 
possibly have been done.” 
DENDROBIUM MICROGLAPHYS. 
IT is interesting to recover another of the lost Reichenbachian species. 
Dendrobium microglaphys was introduced from Borneo in 1865 by Mr. 
Stuart Low, and flowered in the winter of 1867, in the collection of Went- 
worth W. Buller, Esq., Strete Raleigh, near Exeter, being described by 
Reichenbach (Gard. Chron., 1868, p. 1014). It was described as a species 
in the way of D. aduncum, Wall., with stems a span high, ligulate 
acuminate leaves, and racemes of whitish flowers with five purple stripes 
on the lip. It was probably soon lost sight of, and nothing further seems 
to have been recorded about it. A similar plant has now flowered among 
the Bornean importations of Sir Marcus Samuel Bart., The Mote, 
Maidstone, and has been sent to Kew for determination by Mr. James 
O’Brien. The flowers are borne on short racemes, and are over 3-inch long, 
with subconivent white sepals and ‘petals, and the lip purple at the base, 
‘broken up into five purple lines in the centre, and the apex light yellow. 
‘The mentum is saccate, obtuse, and }-inch long. It somewhat resembles 
D. callibotrys, Ridl., in habit. The flowers have a pleasant heliotrope-like 
fragrance.—R.A.R. 
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OBITUARY. 
Joun Snow Moss.—It is with the deepest regret that we have to record the 
death, at his residence, Wintershill Hall, Bishops Waltham, on September 
t1th, of this well-known amateur Orchidist, at the age of 54 years. Mr. Moss 
had just returned from a visit to the Continent when he was seized with an 
apoplectic stroke, from which he never rallied. He had been an enthusiastic 
Orchidist for upwards of thirty years, and as long ago as June, 1890, a new 
