of Gypripedium into Cypripedilum, for etymological 

 reasons. 



Mr. Kolfe, on the other hand, rightly (" Orchid. Rev./' 

 vol. iv. p. 364) retains Selenipedium on the grounds of its 

 American habitat, unilocular ovary and globose seeds ; 

 but unfortunately, for the sake of uniformity in nomen- 

 clature, reduces Paphiopedilum to Paphiopedium. 



As regards the conversion of Gypripedium into Gypripe- 

 dilum, it involves a departure from Linnaeus' meaning of 

 the generic term, which he derived from Kimpis, Venus, and 

 irohiov, afoot (" Phil. Bot.," p. 186), and should have spelled 

 Gypripodium. On the other hand, tt&Lov, which would have 

 given Gypripedium, is Greek for a plain, and trehikov 

 (giving Gypripedilum), for a slipper. The simplest process, 

 if change is desirable, would be to end all in podium : — 

 thus, Gypripodium, Selenipodium, Paphiopodium, the only 

 objection being the aesthetic one that, considering the shape 

 of the lip of Gypripodium, the compliment to the goddess's 

 foot is not a flattering one. 



Paphiopedilum Victoria-Marise is a native of Sumatra, 

 whence it was imported by Messrs. Sander of St. Albans, 

 from whom the specimen here figured was procured. 

 It flowered in the tropical Orchid-house of the Royal 

 Gardens in March, 1897, and continued flowering for some 

 months. 



Descr. — Very robust. Leaves a foot long by one and a 

 half to two inches broad, coriaceous, tip rounded, emargi- 

 nate, with an apiculus in the sinus, upper surface bright 

 green, mottled with darker green, under pale blueish green. 

 Scape eighteen inches high, as thick as a goose-quill, dark 

 purple-brown. Racemes erect, with many flowers, produced, 

 one or two at a time, from below upwards on the stout, dark, 

 red-brown, hirsute rachis. Bracts an inch long or more, 

 cymbiform, obtuse, herbaceous, ciliate, green, with red- 

 brown streaks. Ovary with short pedicel two and a half 

 inches long, strict, erect, green, hairy. Flowers three 

 inches long from the tip of the dorsal sepal to that of lip. 

 Dorsal sepal orbicular, ciliolate, green, streaked with red, 

 and with a broad, nearly white margin ; lateral sepals united 

 in an ovate, obtuse, green blade beneath the lip, about 

 a third shorter than the latter. Petals two inches long, 

 spreading horizontally, undulate and twisted, green, with 



