PRINCIPAL ORCHID HYBRIDS 



flowered for the first time during the summer of 1878. The dorsal sepal 

 is finely lined with purple, and the drooping petals are narrow and most 

 delicately twisted. 



CYPEIPEDIUM x SIEIUS. 



Orchid Review, 1895, vol. iii. p. 32. 



Obtained by Seden from Cypripedium barbatum Warneri and C. Gode- 

 froyae. 



CYPEIPEDIUM (SELENIPEDIUM) x SUAVE. 



Orchid Review, 1901, vol. ix. p. 93. 



Eaised from Cypripedium (Selenipedium) x Sedenii candidulum and 

 C. (S.) Klotzschianum. 



In the details of the flower this hybrid approaches the first-named plant, 

 which was the seed-bearer, but it also shows intermediate characters 

 between the two species. 



CYPEIPEDIUM x SUPEECILIAEE, Bchb. f. 



Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1876, vol. v. p. 795 ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. iv. p. 98 ; Diet. 

 Ic. des Orchidees, Cypripedium hybr. pi. 38. 



A hybrid from Cypripedium barbatum and C. superbiens. The dorsal 

 sepal is very broad, marked with purple and green lines on a white ground ; 

 the petals are strongly ciliated with long black hairs and marked with large 

 points of the same colour. 



CYPEIPEDIUM x TAUTZIANUM, Rchb. f. 



Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1886, vol. xxvi. p. 681 ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. iv. p. 98. 



Eaised from Cypripedium niveum and C. barbatum, and dedicated to 

 the late F. G. Tautz, Esq., of Studley House, Hammersmith, S.W., at that 

 time possessor of one of the best collections of Cypripedes in the country, 

 and a most ardent orchidist. 



CYPEIPEDIUM x T. B. HAYWOOD. 



Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1889, vol. v.' p. 428. 



A hybrid from Cypripedium superbiens and C. Curtisii, named in 

 compliment to the late T. B. Haywood, Esq., of Woodhatch, Eeigate, 

 a great amateur. 



CYPEIPEDIUM x TELEMACHUS. 



Gard. Chron. 1892, vol. xi. p. 816 (Report of R.H.S. Orchid Committee); Orchid 



Review, 1893, vol. i. p. 359. 



Eaised by Seden from Cypripedium Lawrenceanum and C. niveum, 

 a similar parentage to C. X Aphrodite, of which it is merely a variety, 

 differing in having the greater part of the surface of its flowers suffused 

 rosy crimson. 



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