240 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
C@LOGYNE CLARKEI, Kranzlin.—A botanical species belonging 
section Filiferze, introduced by- Messrs. F. Sander and Co., of St. 
which must be extremely close to C. prolifera, Lindl., if not identi 
it. The sepals and petals are described as light brown and the 1} 
yellowish brown, with a darker border to the front lobe and some 
spots on the side ones.—Gard. Chron., June 24th, p. 741. 
LUEDDEMANNIA PESCATOREI. 
A plant of this remarkable and handsome Orchid recently flowered 
Kew collection, its long pendulous raceme carrying about forty-five f 
and reminding one of an elongated Acineta, or Aérides, though the hak 
quite unlike that of the last-named. The sepals are yellow marked 
suffused with brown, and the petals and lip deep yellow. The lip 
three-lobed, the front lobe triangular and acute, with reflexed apex, tl 
lobes erect, and the disc hairy with an erect stout tooth at the base. 
also flowered at Glasnevin on two or three occasions during recent 
The species is a native of Ocana, growing in the mountains at about 6 
feet elevation, and was introduced in 1848 by M. Linden. Soon 
wards it flowered for the first time in Europe in the celebrated coll 
of M. Pescatore, at Paris. It was described by Lindley as Cycnoc 
Pescatorei, the author stating that the raceme was a yard long, and 
ninety-six flowers. It was afterwards elevated to the rank of a di 
genus by Reichenbach, which, notwithstanding some later observati 
evidently its true position. Bentham again referred the plant to Cyen 
with which it has no close affinity, either in habit or structure, and 
pretty evident that he had very little material on which to form an op 
But the most remarkable observations with regard to this singular | 
are those of Reichenbach, in a paper read at the Orchid Conference in 
(see Fourn. Roy. Hort, Soc., vii. p- 20), that Lueddemannias “ may be 
-of Acineta, perhaps also of Peristeria.” He bases the argument 
the fact that Messrs. Veitch had one year what appeared to be an 
demannia, while next year it produced the abominable inflores 
hermaphrodite, which precludes the possibility of their being unis 
besides which they have been produced in Europe on numerous oe 
though we have no authentic evidence of the production of a seco 
Such a striking plant is worthy of more extended culture, for we be# 
at present it is represented in very few collections. 
Lueddemannia Pescatorei, Lind. and Rchb. f. in Bonplandia ii. (1854); P» 2815 fF 
4. 22; Rolfe in Gard. Chron., 1889, ii. p. 183 ; Bot. Mag., t. 7123 
Cycnoches Pescatorei, Lindl. in Paxt. F/. Gard., i, (1850-1), p. 123+ 
