264 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (SEPTEMBER, 1903. 
of Ceelogyne cristata, C. Dayana, and Lelia pumila. We next observed a 
great rarity, in the shape of a species of Trichoceras, called T. muralis, in 
thriving condition. It recalled the rare Erycina in habit, and we hope will 
flower in due season. A few species were in flower, those noted being 
Sarcanthus pallidus, Catasetum maculatum, and Bulbophyllum Lobbii, and 
among the more showy ones Calanthe veratrifolia, Epidendrum osmanthum, 
Brasso-cattleya X Lindleyana, and a small batch of Cypripedium purpur- 
atum, making a nice show. 
August is a rather dull season for Orchids, but a good many interesting 
things were in bloom, and the number of sheaths on the seedlings promise 
a good supply of bloom during the autumn, and indeed a constant succes- 
sion of novelties for years to come. 
OBITUARY. 
A. GopErroy LEBEUF.—-We regret to hear of the death of M. A. 
Godefroy Lebeuf, of Paris, on August 2nd, at the age of 51 years. M. 
Godefroy was the son-in-law and successor of M. V. F. Lebeuf, nurseryman, 
of Argenteuil, near Paris. He spent some time in Cambodia and Cochin 
China, we believe as gardener to M. Pierre, and made a collection of dried 
Orchids, which were deposited at Kew, and worked up by Reichenbach in 
the first part of the Otia Botanica Hamburgensia, which appeared in 1878. 
Here (pp. 32—37) twenty-six species are enumerated, of which nine were 
described as new, and these included such remarkable plants as Phalaenopsis 
Esmeralda and Habenaria pusilla, the latter now better known under its 
later name of H. militaris. Four of these species were named after the 
collector, namely Habenaria Godefroyi, Zeuxine Godefroyi, Cyrtopera 
Godefroyi, and Microstylis Godefroyi. On returning home he settled down 
to the business of nurseryman, paying special attention to Orchids, and in 
June, 1881, he commenced a work on Orchids, entitled L’Orchidophile, of 
which the first volume was completed in 1883, after which a volume 
appeared annually until 1892, and six numbers of the eleventh volume in 
1893, when the work came to an end. He also contemplated an illustrated 
monograph of Cypripedium, of which a single number only was issued, in 
the preparation of which he was assisted by Mr. N. E. Brown, of Kew, the 
drawings being made by Mademoiselle Jeanne Koch. The Phalznopsis 
Esmeralda already mentioned was introduced to cultivation by M. Godefroy 
in 1874, and another handsome novelty introduced by him was Cypripedium 
Godefroye, which was described by Reichenbach in 1885 (Gard. Chron., 
1885, i. p. 49), being dedicated to the introducer’s wife. We believe that 
M. Godefroy was more or less engaged in the Orchid business up to the 
last, though for some time before the end came he was in failing health. 
