66 THE ORCHID REVIEW. { MARCH, 1907. 
Brazil, having been received from an agent whose headquarters were at 
Rio de Janeiro. Odontoglossum crinitum also first flowered with him, in 
1882, Reichenbach remarking (Gard. Chron. 1882, il. p. 40): ‘‘ It was sent 
by Mr. J. Broome, Wood Lawn, Palatine Road, Didsbury, who has had 
the rare pleasure of flowering, no doubt for the first time in Europe, a new 
Odontoglossum.”  Léeelio-cattleya elegans Broomeana (Orch. Alb. 1x. t. 
413) is a very richly-coloured variety which flowered in his collection 
in 1877, and Cattleya Triane Broomeana is another very handsome 
variety which bears his name. Odontoglossum X Adriane var. insigne 
is a striking variety from Mr. Broome, which was described at page 286 
of our ninth volume. Mr. Broome has been a supporter of the Orchid 
Review from the commencement, and we have received various pine: beau- 
tiful Orchids from him. 
Mr. Axtell has been head gardener at Sunny Hill for nearly ten years, 
and remarks that a better master never lived, and all his servants were 
treated as personal friends. He gave freely to every deserving object, 
and those in trouble could always rely on his assistance. Ouly those 
connected with him know how good he was. He was buried at St. Tudno’s © 
churchyard, on the top of the Great Orme, Llandudno, on January 2gth, 
when the trustees of the Manchester Botanical and Horticultural Society 
sent a beautiful floral tribute. About sixty wreaths, &c., were sent, some of 
which were magnificent. 
Otto Kuntze.—A letter from San Remo informs us that Dr. Otto 
Kuntze died there very suddenly on January 29th last, and we tender our 
sympathy to his widow, Frau Helene Kuntze, in her bereavement. The 
deceased, though not an Orchidist, collected a number of Orchids (among 
other plants) during his journey round the world some years ago, and these 
were named for him by Reichenbach. An attempt to give an account of 
his collections soon developed into his notorious Revisio Genera Plantarum, 
published in 1891, in which he renamed thousands of plants in the supposed 
interests of “priority and stability of nomenclature.” During its pre- 
paration he resided at Kew for some years, and in it Orchids were dealt 
with in unsparing fashion, resulting in the abolition of several of the most 
familiar genera, and the substitution of hundreds of new names, partly 
owing to his going back to a period before the system of binomial nomen- 
clature was invented by Linneus. This and other upheavals ultimately — 
led to the holding of the International Botanical Congress at Vienna, whose 
decisions were summarised at pp. 356-358 of our last volume. Dr. Kuntze 
attended this Congress to read a protest against its legality and then with- 
drew. His latest protest appeared (after his death) in the Gardeners’ 
Chronicle for February 9th. 
In that he alluded to the Vienna Congress a3 _ 
udo-international,” and its rules as “ Regule irregulares immature 
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