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pedilum Schlimii crossed with P longifolium, with Messrs. Veitch, gave 
the typical P. x Sedenii (the reciprocal cross, too, being exactly the same), 
whereas P. Schlimiu albiflorum, with light-coloured flowers, gave P. x 
Sedenii candidulum, with light-coloured flowers; while P. Schlimii, 
crossed with P. longifolium Roezlii, with dark-coloured flowers, gave P. 
< Sedenii porphyreum, with dark-coloured flowers. Similarly, P. longi- 
folium crossed with P. caudatum gave the typical P. x grande, while 
the darker variety, P. 1. Roezlii, gave the darker P. x grande 
atratum. 
One of the most distinct and interesting varieties in the Cypripedium 
Fre. 12, PHRaGMIPpEDILUM * ScHRODERA. (Orchid Review.) 
(P. caupATUM 9 x P. SEDENII 2.) 
Hybrid from P. caudatum with the normal Lip of its Parent. 
soup is Phragmipedilum caudatum Lindenii, a natural peloriate variety 
so distinct that, when it was first introduced, Lindley created a new genus 
for it. It is peculiar in being lipless, the place of this organ being 
oceupied by a long petal-like segment which sometimes measures twenty 
inches in length ; it has also a third fertile stamen inserted below the 
stigma at the base of the column, This curious plant was first found 
growing wild in Rep. Colombia, by the late M. Jean Linden, of Brussels, 
in 1843, and has since been found by later collectors in other localities, 
so that apparently it must breed true to character in its own habitat. 
There is not much doubt, however, that it is simply a peloriate form of 
