SEPTEMBER, 1909. | THE ORCHID REVIEW. 265 
PHYSOSIPHON LODDIGESII. 
THE annexed photograph shows a well-grown specimen of Physosiphon 
Loddigesii from the collection of Dr. Otto N. Witt, Westend, Berlin. The 
plant was purchased with others from a gentleman who has grown Orchids 
for over twenty years, doing everything himself without the assistance of a 
gardener, but he has had to give up his collection owing to a stroke of 
paralysis. He told Dr. Witt that it was found as a seedling on the roots of 
a Mexican Lelia, was taken off and matured, and now it flowers profusely, 
looking exactly like a Masdevallia when not in bloom, though of course the 
small brownish-yellow flowers are quite different. The species was 
originally described and figured by Loddiges, in 1830, under the name of Stelis 
Fig. 20. PHYSOSIPHON LODDIGESII. 
tubata (Bot. Cab., t. 1601), from a plant which is said to have been collected 
at Xalapa, by Deppe, but was afterwards made the type of a new genus, by 
Lindley, on account of the sepals being united at the base into a narrow tube, 
somewhat inflated at the base and constricted at the mouth, the plant being 
called Physosiphon Loddigesii (Lindl. Bot. Reg., sub t. 1797). It has 
since been well figured in the Botanical Magazine (t. 4869.) Reichenbach 
changed the name to Physosiphon tubatus (Walp. Ann., vi. p. 188), and 
although the Vienna Rules require the adoption of the earliest correct 
specific name, we prefer to retain the one given by Lindley, on the ground 
that ‘‘tubatus” is incorrect, being obviously a mistake for “ tubulatus.” 
