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THE ORCHID WORLD. 



group containing P. superposita. The sepals 

 and petals are buf¥-yellow striped with brown, 

 and the lip deep red-brown. 



Chondrorhyncha Lipscombi^, from 

 Panama. — Flowered in the collection of 

 Mrs. Lipscomb, Wimbledon, in December, 

 igi I. It was fomid by her son, Mr. Lancelot 

 Lipscomb, when helping to clear some 

 " bush " for rubber and cocoa planting, and 

 was sent home with a good many others in 



1910. The flowers are white with some 

 light purple veins on the lip. 



GONGORA Tracyana, from Peru.— -Intro- 

 duced by Mr. H. A. Tracy, and flowered in 

 the collection of Mr. J. S. Bergheim, in March, 



191 1, and shortly afterwards with the 

 importer. The sepals and petals are 

 greenish-yellow barred and blotched with 

 brown, and the hp ivory-white with a few 

 brown lines on the basal half. 



Angr.-ECUIM AndeRSONII, from Tropical 

 Africa. — A curious leafless species, which 

 flowered at the Royal Botanic Gardens, 

 Glasnevin, in December, 191 1, whence it was 

 sent for determination by Sir F. W. Moore. 

 The flowers are semi-pellucid white, with 

 a broad emerald-green line on the sepals, a 

 green centre to the lip, and a green column. 



Physurus VALIDUS, from Peru. — Flowered 

 in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, 

 in January, 191 1. It resembles the Brazilian 

 P. roseus very closely in habit and floral 

 structure, but from the differently coloured 

 bracts and flowers and the different habitat 

 is probably distinct. 



Habenaria (Ceratopetala) Dawei, 

 from Tropical Africa. — A fine species, of 

 which the radical leaves and the upper part 

 of the scape only were sent. I he specimen 

 was found in open grass land. 



THE NAMING OF SPECIES AND HYBRIDS. 



THE method of naming species, and also 

 hybrids when Latin is used, is as 

 recommended by the International 

 Botanical Congress, held at Vienna, 1905. 



The specific name should, in general, give 

 some indication of the appearance, the 

 characters, the origin, the history, or the 

 projDerties of the species. If taken from the 

 name oi a }>erson, it usually recalls the name 

 of the one who discovered or described it, or 

 was m some way concerned with it. 



Names of men and women, and also names 

 of countries and localitiies used as specific 

 names, may be substantives in the genitive 

 (Mendelii, saharae), or adjectives (Dominiana, 

 dahuricus). It will be well, in the future, to 

 avoid the use of the genitive and the adjectival 

 form of the same name to designate two 

 different species of the same genus. 



Specific names begin with a small letter, 

 except those which are taken from names of 

 persons (substantives or adjectives), or those 

 which are old generic names (substantives or 

 adjectives). 



When a specific name is taken from the 



name of a man, it is formed m the following 

 way : — 



When the name ends in a vowel, the letter 

 1 is added, thus Cappei, except when the name 

 ends m a, when e is added, thus Trianas. 



When the name ends in a consonant, the 

 letters ii are added, thus Mendelii, except 

 when the name ends m er, when 1 is added, 

 thus Warneri. 



Syllables which are not modified by these 

 endings retain their original spelling, even 

 in the case of the consonants k and w, or 

 groupings of vowels which axe not used in 

 classic Latin. 



Letters foreign to the Latin of botanists 

 should be transcribed and diacritic signs 

 suppressed. The German a, o, ii become 

 as, oe, ue ; the French e, e, e become, in 

 general, e. 



When specific names taken from the name 

 of a person have an adjectival form a similar 

 plan is adopted. 



The same applies to the names of women. 

 These are written in the feminine when they 

 have a substantival form. 



