Abstract

In 1828 Messrs. Conrad Loddiges and Sons received from Ferdinand Deppe, then collecting in Mexico accompanied by Christian Schiede, an orchid which flowered in their stove in I830. They figured it in their Botanical Cabinet (t. 1612) in the same year and gave to it the name Maxillaria deppii. In all probability Loddiges had no intention of latinizing Deppe's name to 'Deppius' and the spelling of the epithet must be regarded as an unintentional orthographic error for 'deppei'. Loddiges gave no description of the plant, and the plate carries no drawings of dissections; the valid publication of the name was by Lindley in December, 1832 (Gen. Sp. Orch. Pl. 147), who attributed it to Loddiges and adopted the erroneous spelling.

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