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Biology of Vanda Miss Joaquim

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This is not a review because I am one of the authors. All I want to do is point out that there is a heated debate about the origins of Vanda Miss Joaquim. Mr. Johnson is strongly opposed to the views of the authors of this book. I have rated the book with only one star because comments with no stars cannot be posted.

Joseph Arditti

I have found too many errors in this book. The facts that the Singapore authors should know, they have wrong. Holttum was never Ridley assistant (page 46)! The text is confusing: page 60 "only one parent, Vanda teres is foreign."; on page 225 the first sentence, on the same subject, reads "two orchids from foreign countries". Captions under photographs are confusing as on plate 14. The most serious error is that many of the citations are not in the "Literature Cited" making a check of validity impossible. The problems I had are summed up in the dates for Agnes Joaquim's death: the book on page 41 gives 1898,on page 205 is a picture of her tombstone showing the date as 1899.