﻿abundance of air at al] times when the outside conditions permit. 0. 

 superbiens, O. lamelligerum, and O. monachicum are all similar in growth 

 and general requirements. 



OBITUARY. 



Consul F. C. LEHMANN. — We alluded at page 31 to a brief notice in 

 theGartenflora that Consul F. C. Lehmann had been drowned in the river 



ecuadorenses " {Otia. Bot. Hanib. pp. 3—30) that Lehman* first went to 

 Western South America as a collector for Messrs Hugh Low & Co., then 

 of Upper Clapton, and he evidently made a good collection of dried plants, 

 which were described in the paper in question. Among them we find a 

 considerable number of novelties, no less than eight being Masdevallias, 

 which genus became one of hi.-: special favourites. One of these was 



Cranichis, Cycnoches, Epidendrum, Maxillaria and Odontoglossum were 

 also dedicated to him in the same paper. The date of his journey seems to 

 have been about 1876, for in 1897 he spoke of his twenty-one years of travel 

 in the Andes (Gard. Chron., 1897, i. p. 345). Subsequently he became 

 German Consul in the Republic of Colombia, and he continued to pay 

 great attention to Orchids, indeed we find him offering them for sale in 

 large quantities, but he also made a fine collection of dried specimens, 

 in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia and Ecuador, which have been rather 

 recently worked up (Lehmann and Kran-zlin in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. pp. 



of novelties. One of them, described as a new genus allied to Epidendrum. 

 was dedicated to him under the name of Neolehmannia. His knowledge of 

 Andine Orchids was most extensive, but his writings were not numerous, 

 two papers that occur to us being on Two new Coryanthes {Gard. Chron.. 

 1891, ii, p. 483) and on Trevoria Chloris (I.e., 1S97, i, p. 345). The latter 

 he described as "the second of a number of new genera I have discovered 

 during the twenty-one years of my travels in the Andes." He also supplied 

 the notes on the geographical description of the " Monograph of 

 Masdevallia," issued by the Marquis of Lothian, and illustrated by Miss 

 Woolward, and from these it may be seen how extensive his knowledge of 

 the plants in their native habitat was. He introduced a number of 

 interesting Orchids to cultivation, among them being Ada Lehmanni (Rolfe 

 m Gard. Chron., 1891, ii., p. 34), Trevoria Chloris (Bot. Mag., t. 7805). 



