THE ORCHID WORLD. 
[September, 1913. 
MESSRS. JAMES VEITCH & SONS: 
ORCHID SPECIES. 
AMONG the many species introduced 
by Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons, the 
following are of particular interest : — 
Angr.^CUM CITRATUM. — First discovered 
by the French botanist, du Petit Thouars, 
towards the end of the eighteenth century 
in Madagascar, but subsequently lost sight of 
until a plant, believed to have been obtained 
through Mr. Ellis, flowered at Chelsea in 
1865. At that time Angra?cum citratum was 
exceedingly rare in British collections, and 
continued to be so until the opening of the 
Suez Canal afforded facilities for the more 
rapid transmission of plants from Mada- 
gascar. 
Angr.^:cum FALCATUM. — A pretty little 
Orchid of great botanical and horticultural 
interest from the fact that it was the first 
Angrscum cultivated in Europe, and one of 
the earliest of the Japanese Orchids ever 
introduced. It was first sent to this country 
about the year 181 3 by Dr. Roxburgh, but 
remained lost to cultivation until re-intro- 
duced by Messrs. Veitch about 1868. 
AngR/ECUM Kotschyi. — Discovered in 
1838 by Theodor Kotschy, and in 1876 found 
by the German Hildebrandt on the coast of 
Zanzibar. Three years later living plants 
were sent by Sir John Kirk to Mr. Gerald 
Walker, from whom plants were acquired 
which first flowered at Chelsea in the autumn 
of 1880. 
Arachnanthe Cathcartii. — A native of 
shady valleys in the Eastern Himalayas, 
where it was first detected by Sir Joseph 
Hooker, by whom it was sent to the Calcutta 
Gardens. Repeated attempts were made to 
introduce plants to England with more or 
less success, and it flowered for the first time 
at Chelsea, March, 1870. 
Arachnanthe Lowii. — Discovered in 
Sarawak by Sir Hugh Low, but first flowered 
in this country from specimens sent by 
Thomas Lobb in 1858. It was later collected 
by Curtis in the low swampy forests near the 
coast of Sarawak. The plant is remarkable 
for the enormous length of its racemes and 
for the occurrence of two kinds of flowers on 
the same inflorescence. Illustrated in the 
Orchid World, Vol. II., p. 34. 
BULBOPHYLLUM LOBBII. — Sent from Java 
by Thomas Lobb in 1846, and noted for 
being one of the most showy species of the 
genus. 
CaLANTHE rosea. — First discovered by 
Thomas Lobb in Moulmein early in the year 
1850, and sent by him to Exeter, where it 
flowered in the winter of that year. 
Calanthe vestita. — First introduced into 
European gardens by Dr. Kane, who sent 
the type species and a variety from Moulmein 
to Exeter in 1848. Shortly after Thomas 
Lobb sent the same two forms, with another 
variety since named Turneri, from the same 
district. 
Cattleya Bowringiana. — Sent to 
Messrs. Veitch in 1884 from British Hon- 
duras, in Central America, by a correspondent, 
who stated that the plant grows on cliffs by 
a rapid stream flowing over a succession of 
waterfalls, where the atmosphere is always 
highly charged with moisture. 
Cattleya Dowiana. — This superb 
Orchid flowered for the first time in England 
at Chelsea, in the autumn of 1865. The 
plants were obtained through Mr. G. Llre- 
Skinner, whose collector, Mr. Arce, had 
obtained them in Costa Rica. Plants had 
previously been sent to this country in 1850, 
but arriving in bad condition had all died 
without flowering. It was the wish of 
Warscewicz, the original discoverer, that his 
plant should bear the name Lawrenceana, in 
compliment to Mrs. Lawrence, of Ealing, but 
as his specimens miscarried, this fact was not 
known until after Bateman had named it in 
compliment to Captain J. M. Dow, of the 
American Packet Service. 
Cirrhopetalum ROBUSTUM. — One of 
the largest species of the genus. Sent from 
