162 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
Owing to pressure on our space caused by Reports of the three great 
shows at Antwerp, Manchester, and the Inner Temple Gardens, several 
articles must stand over until next month. These Reports will be found on 
another page. 
OBITUARY. 
Tue death is announced, at Devoran, Cornwall, on April 30th, of the 
veteran plant collector, Thomas Lobb, at a very advanced age. In 1840 he 
was engaged by Mr. Veitch, sen., to collect plants, and during the next 
twenty years he visited the Eastern Himalayas and parts of Burma, after- 
wards the Malay Peninsula, Java and North Borneo, and subsequently the 
Philippine Islands. Many fine garden plants were introduced to cultivation 
by him for the first time, and among the Orchids may be mentioned, Cypri- 
‘pedium villosum, Calanthe rosea, Pleione lagenaria and maculata, Aérides 
Fieldingii, Vanda ccerulea, tricolor, and suavis, Ccelogyne speciosa, Dendro- 
bium infundibulum and albosanguineum, &c. The very interesting natural 
hybrid Phalznopsis x intermedia was also sent by him from the Philip- 
pines. As the result of exposure in his work he had the misfortune to lose 
one of his legs, in consequence of which he gave up collecting, and settled 
down in Cornwall. 
BIFRENARIA HARRISONIZ VAR. PUBIGERA. 
This is a remarkably distinct variety, which was originally described by 
Klotzsch, under the name of Maxillaria pubigera, in 1855. Since that time 
it seems to have been quite lost sight of, but now it has re-appeared among 
the importations of Messrs. F. Sander and Co., of St. Albans. The flowers 
are much smaller than in the type, the sepals being only eight lines broad 
and wholly light plum-purple, and the petals only five lines broad and much 
paler. The lip is also a little smaller, but has the usual shape, markings, 
pubescense and orange-yellow crest. The variety Buchaniana, which 
appeared in the late Mr. Buchan’s collection at Southampton, in 1879, has 
the petals flushed with violet-purple, but the sepals white with some light 
green at the base. It is also normal in size. The variety pubigera is a 
strikingly distinct thing, and it would be interesting to know more about 
its origin, and whether it grows with the typical form. It would also be 
interesting to know if other plants are in existence in the country. 
Bifrenaria Parraonic, var. pubigera, Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron., ica p- 430. Maxillaria 
pubigera, Klotzsch in Otto and Dietr. Allg. Gartenz., xxiii. (1855), p. 
> EL. var. B uchaniana, Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron., 1879; | i. ps ey oe purpurascens, 
Veitch Man. Orch., ix. p. 77. 
