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Caltleya IVarsceioiczii (gigas) flowering in the collection oj Clement Moore. Esq., Hackensack, N.] . 

 U.S.A. The photograph shows 9 sp/^es with a total of 69 flowers. 



VON WARSCEWICZ. 



ON December 2gth, 1867, just fifty years 

 ago, the Polish traveller and col- 

 lector, Joseph Ritter von Rawicz, 

 Warscewicz, died at Cracow, where he held 

 the post of Inspector of the Imperial 

 Botanical Garden. 



His name is perpetuated in Cattleya 

 Warscewiczii, which he discovered in 

 Colombia, about the year 1848. The greater 

 part of this collection was, however, unfortu- 

 nately lost when being conveyed down the 

 river Magdalena, and the few plants that were 

 saved subsequently died. Herbarium speci- 

 mens were preserved, and it was from them 

 that the species was originally described. 



Cattleya Dowiana was discovered by 

 Warscewicz in Costa Rica about the year 

 1850. Plants were despatched to Messrs. 

 Low, but not one survived, and it was not 



until 1865 that the first flower was seen in 

 England, this occurring in Messrs. Veitch's 

 nursery at Chelsea. It is named in honour 

 of Capt. Dow, of the American Packet 

 Service. 



In 1853, Mr. J. C. Stevens announced the 

 sale of a most important collection of Orchids 

 received from Mr. Warscewicz, " who had 

 succeeded at great peril in penetrating into 

 the territory of the Xivaros Indians, near the 

 source of the Maranon, one of the tributaries 

 of the Amazon river, and whence no 

 European ever before returned." Of these 

 plants Epidendrum Frederici Guilielmi 

 realised 16 gns. 



Miltonia Warscewiczii also bears this 

 collector's name ; the dried specimens from 

 which this plant was first described were 

 brought to Europe by him. 



In 1849-50 Warscewicz discovered Masde- 

 vallia militaris in Colombia, and Zygopetalum 



