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50 LANKESTERIANA Table 5. Species described by Lindley based on specimens in the Lambert herbarium that had been bought from Pavón. Name given by Lindley Botanical name that is valid today Epidendrum bidentatum Lindl. Encyclia bidentata (Lindl.) Hágs. & Soto Arenas Epidendrum floribundum H. B. K. Epidendrum paniculatum Ruiz & Pavón Epidendrum fruticosum Pavon ex Lindl. Epidendrum fruticosum Pavon ex Lindl. Epidendrum polyanthum Lindl. Epidendrum polyanthum Lindl. Epidendrum radicans Pavon ex Lindl. Epidendrum radicans Pavon ex Lindl. Epidendrum raniferum Lindl. Epidendrum raniferum Lindl. Epidendrum vitellinum Lindl. Prosthechea vitellina (Lindl.) W. E. Higgins Eucnemis brevilabris Lindl. Govenia liliacea (Lex.) Lindl. Oncidium funereum Lindl. Oncidium reflexum Lindl. Oncidium pauciflorum Lindl. Oncidium pauciflorum Lindl. Ponera juncifolia Lindl. Ponera juncifolia Lindl. Stanhopea bucephalus Lindl. Stanhopea oculata (Lodd.) Lindl. with them to his exile in Montpellier, where he met the Swiss botanist Augustin Pyramus De Candolle (1778-1841) (Fig. 21C), who was impressed by the quality of the work. A short time later Mociño, who seemed to have lost all hopes of returning to Spain, gave the drawings and the manuscripts of the Flora Mexicana to De Candolle, who took them with him in 1816 to Geneva. Six months later, in April, 1817, he received a letter from Mociño, who was still in Montpellier, letting him know that he had received permission to return to Spain, and asking him to return the collections. Honest until his last days, Mociño dared not to go back without the drawings: they belonged to the Crown (McVaugh, 1998). With the help of more than 120 volunteers, most of them ladies of Geneva’s high society, De Candolle managed to copy almost 1,200 plates in only 10 days. Together with 300 duplicates, that were a gift from Mociño, he formed a collection of 13 bound volumes known today as the Flora of the Ladies of Geneva. Many species discovered during the expedition to New Spain could be known during the XIX century thanks to this work. Since, as we shall see later, the original drawings of Mociño disappeared from 1817 until 1981, the collection of copies and duplicates in Geneva became the only source of knowledge about the illustrations of the expedition. In De Candolle’s two main works, his Regni Vegetabilis Systema Naturae (1817-1821) and his Prodomus Systematics Naturales Regni Vegetabilis (1824-1873, completed by his son LANKESTERIANA 9(1—2), August 2009. © Universidad de Costa Rica, 2009. Alphonse), more than 300 species of plants were described based on the drawings of the expedition. Encyclia candollei (Lindl.) Schltr. was dedicated to De Candolle. Apparently only 10 species of orchids were copied. Most of them have been identified to date, although -again- we can not be certain that they belong to our area of study, since no localities of collection are indicated. The originals of six of these copies are still preserved in the Torner Collection of the Hunt Institute. With the recovered collections, Mociño returned to Spain, where the illustrations disappeared after his death. In 1981 they were discovered by the Table 6. Orchidaceae in the “Flora of the Ladies of Geneva” (Torner: Number of the original drawing in the collection of the Hunt Institute; Icones: original number assigned by Sessé y Mociño; DC: Number assigned by De Candolle). Botanical name Torner Icones DC Bletia roezli 0091 258 1196 Cypripedium irapeanum 1112 294 1225 Encyclia lancifolia 0370 253 1225 Prosthechea radiata 253 1190 Govenia sp. 258 1196 Malaxis carnosa 0218 175 1219 Malaxis unifolia 0219 176 1219* Spiranthes cinnabarina 174 1221 Sacoila lanceolata 173 1220 Stenorrhynchos aurantiacus 1751 174 1221
A C ossenbaCh — Orchids and orchidology in Central America Figure 20. A — Front cover of Mociño’s unpublished manuscript for the Flora of New Spain. San Pío Aladrén, 2005: 72. B — Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761-1842). Courtesy of the Oakes Ames Herbarium, Harvard University. C — Dispersal of the botanical collections proceeding from the expeditions to Peru and New Spain. San Pío Aladrén & Puig-Samper, 2000: 11. B LANKESTERIANA 9(1—2), August 2009. © Universidad de Costa Rica, 2009. 51
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