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Schlira, who may have got " des lettres a cheval " from Mr. 

 Linden, he expressed his sentence on a label I have, stating, 

 " monstre d'un Peristeria." The case was nearly forgotten ; 

 almighty Time had washed away the bad impression. 



The "genus" reappeared with Messrs. Veitch. A fine, rich 

 plant was literally loaded with hanging young inflorescences, one of 

 which had developed and appeared to be a fresh Luddemannia, 

 showing fine marks of distinction. Messrs. Veitch were so very 

 kind to let me have the plant. Unfortunately, all the inflor- 

 escences perished while travelling, notwithstanding the excellent 

 packing of the firm, and when the plant flowered next year it 

 showed me the abominable inflorescence of Acineta eryihroxantka. 



A quite distinct Luddemanniana, the third one, appeared 

 with a stiff erect inflorescence and quite peculiar flowers. It was 

 discovered January, 1874, by the late Wallis, who stated it had 

 the bulb of an Acineta and a leaf of Peristeria. I am afraid 

 Wallis made a mistake. Who might distinguish clearly the 

 leaves of those genera ? I would guess Wallis intended to write, 

 it had the bulb of a Peristeria, and thus could be a sex of 

 Peiisteria elata. 



Grand inflorescence of the old Luddemannia Pescatorei were 

 collected and admirably dried for me by Mr. B. Koezl. 



Finally, good plants of Luddemanniana were gathered by 

 Messrs. E. Klabock and Lehmann, perhaps on the same spot. 

 I am not sure who came first. The majestic likeness presented 

 at the sale is well known. I was led to regard Mr. Lehmann' s 

 plant a new type, from his representation and description and 

 the one dried inflorescence. The other inflorescence and two 

 fresh ones proved to be the typical L. Pescatorei. I had the first 

 from Consul Kienast Zolly, of Zurich, the other from an English 

 benefactor, whose name will be, I hope, kindly supplied by 

 Mr. Sander, who forwarded me the very well-grown, grand 

 specimen. It is my ardent wish to have once more fresh state 

 ments of the pleiomorphic state of those flowers, which may be 

 sexes of Acintta, perhaps also of Peristeria. 



I have obtained well-developed seed from the Acineta ery- 

 ihroxantka produced from the Luddemanniana of Messrs. Veitch. 



I hope much from that most skilful observer, Herr Consul 

 Kienast Zolly, and from the English gentleman who had such fine 

 flow T ers. I expect Director Linden, of Brussels, will feel a 

 certain satisfaction in reading this note. 



