322 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
close season in some other localities may be among the possibilities of the 
future. 
America has lost one of her foremost Orchidists, in the person of Mr. F. 
L. Ames, who died on September 13th last, in his fifty-ninth year. His 
collection of Orchids at North Easton, Mass., was very fine, and contained 
many rarities. His name is commemorated in Vanda Amesiana, Luisia 
Amesiana, Phalznopsis x F. L. Ames, and others. 
BOLLEA LALINDEI. 
This is one of the few blue Orchids known in gardens, though unforte- 
nately it is seldom seen. Its discovery was due to Mr. Lalinde, “the 
Orchidophilist architect of Medellin, in New Granada, who for so many 
years kindly assisted the New Granadan travellers and Orchid destroyers 
without being the least acknowledged in Europe ’”’—at least so Reichenbach 
affirms. ‘ Finally, the gentleman appears to have settled his mind by sent- 
ing himself living Orchids to Europe, and he began to do so assisted by his 
young Belgian friend, M. Patin.” It flowered with Messrs. James Veitch and 
Sons, in1874. The flowers were described as beautiful bright violet, the tip 
of the upper sepal green, and the inferior halves of the lateral ones brownish 
purple, the lip deep orange, and the column deep purplish. Bollea Patial 
described at the same time, from the same source, has rather larger and 
much paler flowers of a pallid blue, but it is evidently a variety of the samé 
It flowered in the collection of G. Herriot, Esq., of Cholmeley Park, High- 
_ gate. A plant of the latter form has recently flowered in the collection of 
Welbore S. Ellis, Esq., Hazelbourne, Dorking, which was imported in 189! 
with Cattleya Warscewiczii, from a district well up the Magdalena ae 
in New Granada. The flower is pale whitish lilac, suffused with mavv 
near the tips, the crest of the lip deep yellow and column mauve-purple: 
This organ is very remarkable, being eleven lines broad, and vety concavé 
giving the flower a very grotesque appearance. It should be cultivated 
the warm house, in a mixture of peat and moss, in well-drained pots wis 
pieces of fern stem. It requires an abundance of water when growing | 
and should never be allowed to become dry at any time. | 
Bollea Lalindei, 2 - : Vag., t. 6331: Zyg° 
petalum Lalindei, ance ‘a ie Nercteat eahg sie, Sane vies ie Orchy 
: ‘Bollea Patini, fig. 13 Fh Mas: ' 
Rchb. f. in Gard. + : : a. oe 
N. 8., 1875, t. 147. ard. Chron., 1874, ii. p. 34 ; 1875, i. pp- 8,9 
