the name significance for a few, and if there be any flower which demands an expressive title, it is this, in my judgment.  Possibly it was some Indian report which had slipped his recollection that led Roezl to predict the discovery of a new Odontoglot, unlike any other, in the very district where Od.  Harryanum was found after his death, though the story is quoted as an example of that instinct which guides the heaven-born collector.  The first plants came unannounced in a small box sent by Senor Pantocha, of Colombia, to Messrs. Horsman in 1885, and they were flowered next year by Messrs. Veitch.  The dullest who sees it can now imagine the excitement when this marvel was displayed, coming from an unknown habitat.  Roezl’s prediction occurred to many of his acquaintance, I have heard; but Mr. Sander had a living faith in his old friend’s sagacity.  Forthwith he despatched a collector to the spot which Roezl had named—­but not visited—­and found the treasure.  The legends of orchidology will be gathered one day, perhaps; and if the editor be competent, his volume should be almost as interesting to the public as to the cognoscenti.

I have been speaking hitherto of Colombian Odontoglossums, which are reckoned among the hardiest of their class.  Along with them, in the same temperature, grow the cool Masdevallias, which probably are the most difficult of all to transport.  There was once a grand consignment of Masdevallia Schlimii, which Mr. Roezl despatched on his own account.  It contained twenty-seven thousand plants of this species, representing at that time a fortune.  Mr. Roezl was the luckiest and most experienced of collectors, and he took special pains with this unique shipment.  Among twenty-seven thousand two bits survived when the cases were opened; the agent hurried them off to Stevens’s auction-rooms, and sold them forthwith at forty guineas each.  But I must stick to Odontoglossums.  Speculative as is the business of importing the northern species, to gather those of Peru and Ecuador is almost desperate.  The roads of Colombia are good, the population civilized, conveniences abound, if we compare that region with the orchid-bearing territories of the south.  There is a fortune to be secured by anyone who will bring to market a lot of O. noeveum in fair condition.  Its habitat is perfectly well known.  I am not aware that it has a delicate constitution; but no collector is so rash or so enthusiastic as to try that adventure again, now that its perils are understood; and no employer is so reckless as to urge him.  The true variety of O.  Hallii stands in much the same case.  To obtain it the explorer must march in the bed of a torrent and on the face of a precipice alternately for an uncertain period of time, with a river to cross about every day.  And he has to bring back his loaded mules, or Indians, over the same pathless waste.  The Roraima Mountain begins to be regarded as quite easy travel for the