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ered in 1817 by Mr. William Swainson in the Brazils. He 

 sent plants to London, and one flowered in 1818, with Mr. 

 Cattley, of Barnet, after whom Lindley named the genus. 

 The elder Hooker also had a piece from Mr. Cattley, and with 

 him it flowered in 1821. There were, I should think, some 

 two or three dozen plants sent at first. Mrs. Horsfall, 

 of Liverpool, received some from the captains of ves- 

 sels trading with the Brazils, about 1830, and about ^catt- 

 1845 a small lot arrived in France. There the mat- ^ alabi " 

 ter rested until about 1882, when a small consign- 

 ment came to the London Zoological Gardens, and passed 

 into the hands of Mr. B. S. Williams, of Holloway. Again, 

 two years, a small consignment arrived in France." The re- 

 cent introductions of this cattleya occurred in 1890 and 1891. 

 The plant introduced in 1890 was not recognized as true C 

 labiata at first, and was named C. Warocqueana. Some grow- 

 ers pronounced it a variety of C. labiata, and others placed it 

 with C. Gaskelliana. Both these views are on record in An- 

 nals for 1890, on pages 57 and 59, respectively. While most 

 growers consider C. Warocqueana and C. labiata to be identical, 

 there are others who still regard them as distinct, and among' 

 these is so good authority as Lewis Castle, who writes :* 

 " Further evidence may be forthcoming that cannot be ignored, 

 but up to the present time I have not seen a Cattleya Waroc- 

 queana which I could consider identical with the old C. la- 

 biata vera, with which I have long been familiar in English 

 collections." 



There has been much discussion in Europe as to the botani- 

 cal position of C. Warocqueana, and, unfortunately, the debate 

 has not been free from personalities. The following extracts 

 from a letter published by L. Linden, as a supplement to Le 

 Journal des Orchidees (October, 1891), appear to represent the 

 salient facts in the record of the reintroduction of Cattleya labi- 

 ata'. " My father, to whom botanists and horticulturists owe Reintro- 

 the discovery and original introduction into Europe of almost [he 10n ° 

 all the beautiful cattleyas known, was long aware of the fact that cattle y a - 

 a certain district in Brazil contained a remarkable species of 

 cattleya in abundance. In the month of December, 1889, we 

 sent our collector, Mr. Bungeroth, to this region, in order that 

 he might send us several thousand specimens of the plant. 



*Jour. Hort. Oct. 1, 1891, 283. 



