Lindleyella

Schlechter , DIe Orchideen (1914) . 414 .

Lycasteae .III. IV. In commemoration of the great English botanist , Professor John Lindley ,F.L.S. , F.R.S. (1799-1865), native of Norfolk ; editor of Botanical Register and Gardeners Chronicle ; one of the foremost orchidologists of all time, and Gardeners Chronicle ; one of the foremost orchidologists of all time , and author of the first sustantial classification of the ORCHIDACEAE . " The orchids were his particular favorites ,and the various works he wrote on them will probably be regarded as the most favorable specimens of what he has done and what he could do ; and let us own that there are few botanists who would not be glad to have written them that of John Lindley ."