292 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [OcTOBER, 1912- 
OBITUARY. 
J. S. BERGHEIM.—We regret to record the death, on September roth last, 
as the result of an accident, of Mr. J. S. Bergheim, Belsize Court, Hamp- 
stead, the possessor of a very interesting collection of Orchids and other 
plants. Three days previously Mr. and Mrs. Bergheim were travelling in 
their motor car on the Ripley Road, when, in attempting to avoid a cart, 
the car ran on to a bank and was overturned. Mr. Bergheim sustained a 
fractured skull and other injuries, and Mrs. Bergheim a severe shock. 
They were taken to the Guildford Cottage Hospital, were Mr. Bergheim, 
who was in his seventieth year, died on September roth without regaining 
consciousness. Mrs. Bergheim is recovering satisfactorily and the chauffeur 
escaped almost unhurt. Mr. Bergheim, who was largely interested in oil- 
fields, was a keen naturalist and a lover of plants, and his Orchid collection 
contained both the usual showy and botanical kinds, some of which he had 
himself collected during a series of trips to various foreign parts, in which 
he was accompanied by Mrs. Bergheim. A very interesting note on a 
batch of seedling Catasetums may be found at page 318 of our last volume, 
these being from a plant of C. macrocarpum which was brought from 
Trinidad a few months previously with a small collection of native Orchids. 
Mr. Bergheim was present at the R.H.S. meeting on August 27th, when he 
exhibited a plant of Listrostachys O’Brieniana (p. 284), which received an 
Award of Merit, and the remarkable Bulbophyllum Gentilii, which is 
noted at page 314. 
CATASETUM SPLENDENS. 
A SPIKE of a handsome Catasetum has been sent by Mr. Wilhelm Hennis, 
Orchid Importer, of Hildesheim, Hanover, with the information that it was 
imported as C. Bungerothii from the lower part of Colombia, near 
Venezuela, whence the rivers run towards the Orinoco. It is a form of 
the remarkably polymorphic C. splendens, Cogn., believed to be.a natural 
hybrid between C. Bungerothii and C. macrocarpum, whose history has 
already been given in detail (O.R., ii. pp. 355-357 3. lll. pp. 43, 85, 86). The 
form sent by Mr. Hennis approaches C. splendens var. Alicize (Lindema, 
x. t. 457) in colour, but the lip is much less open; in fact the shape is 
nearer that of C. macrocarpum var. Lindenii (J.c., t. 442), which is now 
believed to be a form of C. splendens. The latter created rather a sensa- 
tion when it appeared some eighteen years ago, and as other plants 
imported by Mr. Hennis are showing for flower it will be interesting to see 
if history repeats itself. Mr. Hennis also states that he has imported some 
Cycnoches from the same locality, which have not flowered yet. We shal 
hope to hear more about them. RoA RF. 
