Dear Viateur and group,
What more can I add to Dr. Henry F. Oakeleys comments in reply to your question about the identity of the plant depicted in Botanical Magazine 80: t. 4807 (1854)? As the matter now stands I have erred in my comments on this illustration, and I have learned a thing or two. However, although I can well imagine why Sr. Pedro Ortiz Valdivieso believes that the plant in this picture must be closer to Anguloa virginalis rather than to A. eburnea (this was my first impression too, but I chose to ignore the rather spiky perianth and concentrated my reply on the characteristics of the lip), I am still surprised though to read that Dr. Henry F. Oakeley finds the lip of this specimen, albeit untypical, acceptable for A. virginalis, with the kink or 'swan's neck' at its base totally lacking (compare for instance with the photo of A. virginalis in Orchid Digest 63(4): p. 16, bottom right). The characteristics of the lip do also not concur with pertinent details depicted in a set of field sketches that I have been given by Dr. Henry F. Oakeley and which he made of, among other species, Ecuadorian and Peruvian specimina of A. virginalis. So I guess material of A. virginalis that is less typical in this respect must have come to his attention since he drew these sketches (June 1996 and December 1994, respectively) and finished the article in Orchid Digest 63(4). Or, could it be that the drawing in Bot. Mag. 80: t. 4807 (1854) is also a concoction of different species, as I understand from Dr. Henry F. Oakeleys reply the illustration in Bot. Reg. (1844) 30: t. 60 is presently conceived to be? Whatever, the latter being the case or not, I guess it is no longer relevant to Viateurs original question since the illustration in Botanical Magazine 80: t. 4807 (1854) was only erroneously referred to as the iconotype of A. eburnea, and it doesn't change the fact that I misinterpreted it.
As the genus Anguloa is one of my personal favourites (together with other Euglossine bee-pollinated genera such as Gongora and Stanhopea), I am obviously much looking forward to the book on this genus and the closely related Ida and Lycaste.
Simon M. Wellinga / SymPhyto - Laboratory for in vitro plant propagation Heerenveen The Netherlands / EU _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids
