THE ORCHID REVIEW. it 
Magdalen College, Oxford, for, doting too long on the charms of 
Renanthera, he stayed out beyond the prescribed period, and incurred the 
wrath of the Vice-President of the College—no less a person than Dr. 
Daubeny, who afterwards became Professor of Botany at the University— 
~ and for a punishment was commanded to write, not a compulsory eulogium 
in the choicest Greek iambics of the syren Renanthera, but to copy out 
half the Psalms (Gard. Chron., 1897, xxli., p. 400). 
In 1833, with his father’s permission, Mr. Bateman sent the late 
Mr. Colley to British Guiana, to collect Orchids and other plants, and 
in 1835 he contributed a very interesting account of the expedition, 
based on Mr. Colley’s report, to Loudon’s Gardener's Magazine (p. 1.), 
from which we learn that Colley left Liverpool on December 24th, 1833, 
and arrived at Georgetown, Demerara, on February 20th, 1834, finding 
the Colony suffering severely from drought, scarcely a flower being seen, 
and most of the pseudobulbs having lost their leaves; but with the 
compensating advantage that they travelled like Dutch bulbs. About 
sixty different kinds reaching home alive, of which a third were new to 
European collections. One of these was Batemania Colleyi, in which 
Dr. Lindley commemorated both the collector and his employer. 
Some interesting details were given, including a graphic account of 
the “struggle for life” and ‘‘ vegetable retribution.” Most of the Orchids 
were described as very local, except Catasetum tridentatum and Stanhopea 
grandiflora, which were found in every part of Demerara. In 1894, 
nearly sixty years afterwards, Mr. Bateman’s remembrances of. this 
expedition were given to Mr. James O’Brien in a letter, which has now 
appeared in the Gardeners’ Chronicle (Dec. 11th, p. 410), and we venture 
to repeat it, as giving ‘‘a glimpse of the enthusiast as he was in his 
declining days, but still retaining his fine intellect, and that pleasing 
way of putting things which formed a great feature in his lectures at 
the Royal Horticultural Society.” 
“It has been a great pleasure to me to revive memories of my first 
experience in Orchid importing. I sent (with my father’s permission) a man 
of the name of Colley to collect Orchids in Demerara. He was under the 
protection of the two great Liverpool merchants, Moss and Horsfall, on 
whom he was authorised to draw to the extent of £200 or £300. Colley 
did his best, and found abundance of Orchids, 7.e., of Catasetums and yellow- 
flowered Oncidiums, which then were not worth their freight. The only 
new plant worthy of cultivation was a species of Rodriguezia or Burling- 
tonia, with large white flowers, which flowered beautifully and then died. 
There is a beautiful white Catasetum in the Demerara woods, but Colley 
was not fortunate enough to meet with it, indeed, it has not been found 
until a very recent period. All this reads like a very poor speculation, but 
