* |Sk j Win a, PiiMtuttj of a Crcut Orchiiioitynst H)9 



ha.s .-pecimen.s of vaiious dryland plciuu from )he interior ft Sew 

 booth Wales beaiiog Rupp's handwriting ^n<\ the d^te- 1295, llrfl if 

 is hoi dear whether he collected these himself during a Uuiversin 

 vacation or received them from *on>e correspondent, 



Jl very where Ik: went, orchids were arduously collected ami 

 sutdiM. and many were the exciting experiences uL rue chase, In 

 S*|>t*mber 1912 at Wollombin, eight miles from liarrabu. lie found 

 U new species of Boujwo; this was named B, ntppri by Kdwin Chrcl 

 in 1928. The previous year (1927) \J\\ Kugers had named in iii*j 

 honour Prit&aphyUum ruppH — a small oiclud from Paterson 

 X.SAV. He made only one accent of Mr. Kosciusko, in 191. V During 

 Ivr-e V : >39 lie spent a fortnight with his sou-m-law. L. C. Cox ul 

 AnnidaLe, <in the lofty and immensely interesting Vfcirringroii Tops 

 Qi*c of his la. c -t, bur most pleasant, exploits was through the. Ghi1o*» 

 Por^iK (Diihho district) m September 1950 — he wrote glow ngly 

 of its floral Measures. 



Contacts were formed with many kindred mind* in all State*; he 

 fttst die Tasmanian orchid-lover. Archdeacon ri 53 Atkinson, while 

 acmng his Church in that State, and shortly afterwards Df H. 1. 

 Kesteven at Bulladdah, M-SAV.--^) specie-, of orchids weie found 

 in that rich area. With his fellow orchidolcgitfs, Dr. R. S. Rogers 

 and VV. It. Nicholls, a large correspondence grew and continued 

 itltfij their deaths | -splendid comradeship prevailed between the three 

 and they collaborated variously in a number of researches ! .arrerly 

 Knpp also collaborated with E. D. Hatch of New Zealand in investi- 

 gyjITttg those orchid yeucrn and species common to hoth sides of the 

 T;i>man Sea. 



It is remarkahle that such a specialist, whose mind was packed 

 with orchid lore, should have refrained from publication until his 

 52nd year! Apparently, his first paper was printed in the .4 ttsf 'ralitm 

 ls!at:ifa!i.<t tor April 1924 -**Kntes on the Habits of Certain 

 Orchids" [five pa^o:). Thereafn»r he contributed at least 215 

 articles lo various natural history journals ami bdeutilk periudicalv 

 in adOirinu to publishing two illustrated books — Guide to the Or- 

 rkiih of Nltf* Saym IVaks (1U30) and Orchids fff Jffao Sotiftt 

 IfVf-k N94J). He aUo wrote the article ORCHIDS for the forth 

 coining Atislralimt Em yttopcrdiu {now in prr.ss Yn Angus & Roberl- 

 sou Ltd.) Seventy-two of his coirrrihutious appear in the Victorkw 

 Ni.htralist (.with 30 'lew specie*), «fp ifl the rlitxf ration Qrchkl 

 AVr/^r, 34 in the North Qtt-eeiis!ti:iil Naturalist and 30 in tin: 

 Proc*'t~iii*%qs oj the f. inn-con Society oj~ ^en' South PVufcs. Four new 

 genera, all monotypicj and 71 new specie* are described among his 

 papers and rcvisional studies of the Common wealth'* oichid floia. 

 One ot the new genera was Cry ftnv themes, the single species C". 

 sfatrri being discovered at Ahnn Mountain \>quy Bulladdah by E 

 Slater in November 1931. This extraordinary plant carries nut it- 

 life-hisior}', the production of flowers induced, entirely benearh the 



