EXPERIMENTS IN HYBRIDISATION, &c. I 
The first eight plants that flowered reproduced exactly the characters 
of the parental variety, P. L. Hyeanum, but the ninth one reverted to an 
ordinary form of the type P. Lawrenceanum. P. insigne Sander is a 
variety in which nearly all the brown and green colouring matter of the 
type has vanished, leaving the variety shades of yellow and white. Mr. 
Fic. 9.—PAPHIOPEDILUM INSIGNE SANDERS. (Orchid Review.) 
Norman Cookson has also raised this perfectly true from self-fertilised 
seed. (Fig. 9.) 
P. x Harrisiamum Rossianum is a striped variety or sport of a light- 
coloured hybrid between P. villosum and P. barbatum, in which the 
colours of the two parents, in the flowers, lie side by side, instead of being 
fused together as in the type, giving the variety a curious harlequin 
appearance. Mr. H. J. Ross, of Florence, fertilised this variety with its 
