PRINCIPAL ORCHID HYBRIDS 



CYPEIPEDIUM x ANTIGONE. 



Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1890, vol. viii. p. 716 ; Jour, of Hort. 1891, vol. xxiii. p. 262, 



fig. 49. 



A hybrid raised by Seden from Cypripedium Lawrenceanum and 

 C. niveum, the reverse cross of that which produced C. x Aphrodite, 

 altogether a more robust plant. 



CYPEIPEDIUM x APHEODITE. 



Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. iv. p. 77 ; Gard. Chron. 1893, vol. xiv. p. 342 (Report of 

 R.H.S. Orchid Committee); Gard. Mag. 1894, Feb. 10, p. 76, fig. 



Eais'jd from Cypripedium niveum and C. Lawrenceanum ; and a very 

 handsome hybrid, with foliage scarcely less attractive than the flowers, 

 which are white with rosy veins and dots. 



CYPEIPEDIUM x AEETE. 



Gard. Chron. 1892, vol. xii. p. 744 (Report of R.H.S. Orchid Committee); id. 1893, 

 vol. xiii. p. 8 ; Orchid Review, 1903, vol. i. p. 32. 



Eaised by Seden from Cypripedium concolor and C. Spicerianum, the 

 latter being the pollen parent. 



The creamy white flowers are all covered with a profusion of rose 

 dots, and the upper sepal, base of petals and edge of lip are tinged with 

 green. 



CYPEIPEDIUM x AETEMIS. 



Gard. Chron. 1895, vol. xvii. p. 199 (Chapman's List of Hybrid Orchids). 

 Eaised from Cypripedium Dayanum and C. Swanianum. 



CYPEIPEDIUM x AETHUEIANUM, Echb.f. 



Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1874, p. 676 ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. iv. p. 77, fig. ; 

 1'Orchidophile, 1887, p. 209, col. pi. ; Orchid Review, 1893, vol. i. p. 305, fig. ; 

 id. 1905, vol. xiii. p. 40 ; Diet. Ic. des Orchidees, Cypripedinm hybr. pi. 12. 



Eaised at Chelsea by Seden from Cypripedium insigne and the then 

 rare and beautiful C. Fairieanum. 



Only a single seedling was raised, and this flowered for the first time 

 in 1874, when Professor Eeichenbach dedicated it to the late Arthur 

 Veitch. It was the second of the Fairieanum hybrids to be raised, and 

 is one of the most robust of the group. The influence of C. Fairieanum is 

 obvious in the undulate petals and in the veining of the dorsal sepal. 



CYPEIPEDIUM x AETHUEIANUM, var. PULCHELLUM. 



Jour, of Hort. 1892 (Feb.), fig. 66; Orchid Review, 1893, vol. i. p. 305; id. 1894, 

 vol. ii. p. 44 ; id. 1905, vol. xiii. p. 40, fig. ; Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1894, p. 10. 



A variety obtained from a cross in which Cypripedium insigne Chantini 

 was used with C. Fairieanum instead of the typical C. insigne. 



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