I should like to be introduced, in its Bornean home, to the
glorious plant called Caelo Dyana.
But fancy a footman having to announce Madame SPATHOGLOTTIS
KIMBALLIANA!
Odont. Uro-Skinneri _sounds_ like something medical and epidermic,
but then we're informed that its sepals and petals
Are "reticulated in tender brown and broad rosy-mauve," which
immediately sends one "off the metals."
The Masdevallias may be a respectable family, though _I_ should
not care to marry into it,
But "the hybrid M. Mundyana representing M. Veitchii x M. Ignea"
(though "a wonderfully glowing orange" by all accounts),
sounds so exceedingly mixed and mongrel that I'd certainly
eschew it.
"A noble Catt: Gigas" _sounds_ rather aristocratic: "Catt:
Jacomb," I suppose, is a sort of a relative;
But Od. Citrosmum, sounds awfully odd, and is not _my_ notion of a
reassuring appellative.
And what _are_ you to make of Odont. crisp. Sanderae, which,
whomsoever "Sanderae" may be, _I_ don't want to "crisp"
him;
"A sport of nature unequalled" they call him, and no doubt his
_name_ is, for I can neither clearly articulate, stutter
or lisp him.
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