330 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
of Lord Hood’s Nose. It has a flat top, andrises about 2,000 feet above the level of the sea, 
to which it presents a nearly perpendicular precipitous face. . . . On the face of the moun. 
tain, at an elevation of several hundred feet, we observed some large patches of one of those 
beautiful large-flowered orchideous plants which are so common in Brazil. _ Its large rose- 
coloured flowers were very conspicuous, but we could not reach them. A few days afterwards 
we found it on a neighbouring mountain, and ascertained it to be Cattleya labiata, - Those 
on the Gavea will long continue to vegetate, far from the reach of the greedy collector 
(pp. 21, 22). 
Now comes the other locality just mentioned :— 
We made an excursion to a mountain called the Pedra Bonita, immediately opposite 
the Gavea.... Near the summit of the Pedra Bonita there is a small fazenda, or fam, 
the proprietor of which was then clearing away the forest that covers it, converting the trees 
into charcoal. . . . On the edge of a precipice on the eastern side, we found, covered with 
its large rose-coloured flowers, the splendid Cattleya labiata, which a few days before we had 
seen on the Gavea (pp. 23-25). 
This was in November, 1836. Gardner secured a few specimens for 
drying, and a ticket in his own handwriting states :— 
It was with much difficulty and no little danger, that I could obtain about a dozen 
specimens of this, from the edge of a precipice on the Pedra Bonita Lynca, I collected, 
however, abundance of living plants (G. G., Wov., 1836). 
The clearing away of the forest mentioned by Gardner soon did its fatal 
work, and probably those on the Gavea did not “ long continue to vegetate, 
in spite of their inaccessibility, for we learn that— 
The following year, on my return from the Organ Mountains, I again visited this 7 
[the Pedra Bonita], and found that a great change had taken place. The forest, vo 
formerly covered a considerable portion of the summit, was now cut down and gen 
into charcoal ; and the small shrubs and Vellozias which grew in the exposed portio ove 
been destroyed by fire. The progress of cultivation is proceeding so rapidly for a 
around Rio, that many of the species which still exist will, in the course of a we a as 
completely annihilated, and the botanists of future years who visit the country W 
vain for the plants collected by their predecessors (p. 25). 
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Until 1838, at least, the plant was fairly common in such collection 
then existed, when we learn that— 
le cost 
Plants may be had from Messrs. Loddiges, Rollison, or Knight, at 4 reasonab 
(Paxt. Mag. Bot., iv. p22). 
But as soon as the plant was exterminated in the localities just a 
it gradually became rarer, though some of these very plants have ~~ 
in cultivation to this day, and are now interesting relics of 
things which has long since passed away. 84z, he 
Gardner found the plant in one other locality. On March _ eee 
was at the little hamlet of Sapucaya, on the banks of the — i Minas 
which forms the boundary of the provinces of Rio de Janeiro ant ee 
Geraes. He writes -— : 
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