﻿December, 1904.J 



THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



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sent from Brazil by Gardner, and flowered at Kew in May, 1843. It has 

 the long slender pseudobulbs, rich purple flowers, and typical corrugated 

 yellow disc of the species. 



A year later it received another name, being figured and described as C. 

 Papeiansiana (C. Morren in Ann. de Gaud., i., t. 5). It had been intro- 

 duced from Brazil, and flowered in the collection of Docteur Van Aken, of 

 Ghent, and was dedicated to M. le Chevalier Theodore Papeians de 

 Marchoven. The remark made of the preceding applies to this also. 



In 1857 a fine figure of the plant appeared under its original name of C. 

 Harrisoniana (Journ. Soc. Imp. ct Ccntr. d'Hort. (Paris), iii. p. 725, t. 7), 

 when Duchartre pointed out its characters very clearly. A fine figure also 

 appeared in the Paradisus Vindobonensis (t. 21). 



The early history of the species of this group has been terribly confused, 

 and Lindley quite failed to grasp their characters in several instances, and 

 to this may be traced much of the difficulty we now have to deplore. For 

 example, in 1836 he described two species under the names of C. ovataa nd 

 C. maritima (Bot. Reg., sub t. 1919), and afterwards referred the former to 

 C. Loddigesii, and while retaining the latter as distinct, added: — " Possibly 

 it is one of the many varieties of C. Loddigesii (/. c. 1844, sub. t. 5). 

 Reichenbach accepted this opinion, and Veitch naturally followed, yet both 

 the plants are unmistakably C. intermedia, as Lindley's own type specimens 

 prove. Worse than this, Lindley, while retaining C. maritima, reduced C. 

 intermedia itself to C. Loddigesii (/. c, sub t. 5). C. Harrisoniana, how- 

 ever, he retained as distinct, adding: — " I only know this plant from two 

 flowers given me by Mr. Bateman " (/. c, sub t. 5). These, fortunately, are 

 the type specimens. 



Under these circumstances it is not remarkable that the two species we 

 are discussing should have been misunderstood, yet so far as gardens are 

 concerned the confusion is of comparatively recent origin. At all events, 

 Mr. Day knew the plants under their correct names, and so figured them, 

 C. Harrisoniana in 1868 (Col. Draw., xi., t. 89), and C. Loddigesii in 1873 

 (I.e., xviii., t. 27). He also figured the chaste " C. Candida," which he 

 correctly remarked was a white variety of C. Harrisoniana. Under C. 

 Harrisoniana occurs the following very interesting note : — " This plant was 

 one of the first Orchids I had. I bought it of Mr. Conrad Loddiges, in 

 1852, being one of fifty good sorts which he sold me for £50, and his words 

 were at the time of sale:— ' Now I will send you such a selection as will 

 make you an Orchid grower.' At the time I little expected how true his 

 words would be." The variety Candida was also included in the same lot. 



It is not improbable that the latter variety originated some of the more 

 recent confusion, for there is a very pale form of C. Loddigesii which opens 

 white at first, gradually assuming a pale lilac colour afterwards, and this 



