THE ORCHID REVIEW. 199 
LUEDDEMANNIA SANDERIANA. 
LAstT year an Orchid, introduced by Messrs F. Sander & Co., it was said 
from the neighbourhood of Medellin, was described by Dr. Krinzlin under 
the above name (Gard. Chron., 1897, xxii., p. 138) as an ally of L. 
Lehmanni, but differing in having cream coloured sepals and petals, anda 
white lip spotted with purple and bearing a very dark purple callus. A 
plant of it has now flowered at Kew, and was immediately seen to belong 
to another genus, being in fact, the old Laczena bicolor described by Dr. 
Lindley over half-a-century ago (Bot. Reg., 1843, Misc. p. 68), when it 
flowered in the Horticultural Society’s garden. A figure subsequently 
appeared (/.c., 1844, t. 50), when the plant was said to have been sent from 
Guatemala by Hartweg, who found it in the mountains of Saloma in the 
province of Vera Paz, also near the village of Sunil, near Quezaltenango, 
growing on rocks at an elevation of about 7000 feet above the sea. Shortly 
afterwards Richard and Galeotti described it under the name of Peristeria 
longiscapa (Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 3, iii., p. 25), from specimens collected by 
the latter in Mexico. In 188g a very fine plant, which had been imported 
from Mexico as a Stanhopea, flowered in the collection of E. H. Watts, 
Esq., of Chiswick, and was described by Mr. J. Fraser as Acineta Wrightii 
(Gard. World, June 22, 1889, p. 673), in honour of Mr. Watts’ gardener. 
The spike was over 24 feet long and bore 46 flowers. And now it has been 
wrongly referred to Lueddemannia. In fact the unfortunate plant seems 
to have received a new name each time it has appeared in cultivation. It 
belongs to a quite distinct genus, of which only one other species is known, 
namely, L. spectabilis, Rchb. f., a native of Mexico, of which a good figure 
appears at t. 6516 of the Botanical Magazine. L. bicolor var. glabrata, 
Lem. ({il. Hort., 1., Misc., p. 56, t. 33) belongs to the latter. These plants 
should be grown in hanging baskets like Stanhopeas and Acinetas, and 
require similar treatment. 
R. A. ROLFE. 
CATTLEYA MENDELII JANUS. 
A VERY curious form of Cattleya Mendelii is sent by Messrs. B. Hurst 
and Son, of Hinckley, which flowered out of a batch imported last year. 
Two racemes are sent, and in each case the terminal flower consists of only 
two opposite sepals and petals, and a long slender column. In one case 
the column is straight, flattened above, and bears two perfect anthers, 
alternating with the petals; the other having but one, though resembling 
the first in having lost all trace of the column wings and stigma. The two 
