PRINCIPAL ORCHID HYBRIDS 



CYPRIPEDIUM x VEXILLARIUM, Bchb. 



Gard. Chron. 1870, p. 1373 ; id. 1880, vol. xiii. p. 780, fig. 135 ; Orchid Album, t. 447 ; The 

 Garden, 1874, vol. v. p. 102, fig. ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. iv. p. 100, fig. ; 

 Orchid Review, 1893, vol. i. p. 297, fig. 15 ; id. 1905, vol. xiii. p. 16 ; Diet. Ic. des 

 Orchidees, Cypripedium hybr. pi. 2. 



Eaised by Dominy at Chelsea from Cypripedium barbatum and C. 

 Fairieanum, this hybrid has the peculiar curved and drooping petals of 

 the latter, and the dorsal sepal resembles, more or less, that of C. barbatum. 

 Flowering for the first time in 1870, it was one of the earliest hybrids of 

 the Fairieanum series to bloom. 



CYPKIPEDIUM x WINNIANUM, Bchb.f. 



Bchb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1886, vol. xxv. p. 362; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. iv. p. 100; 

 Diet. Ic. des Orchidees, Cypripedium hybr. pi. 18. 



Kaised from Cypripedium villosum and C. Druryi, and dedicated to 

 Charles Winn, Esq., of Selly Hill, Birmingham, a noted amateur. The 

 flowers are intermediate between those of the two parents, the prevailing 

 ground colour a soft light brown. 



CYPEIPEDIUM x ZENO. 



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

 Kaised from Cypripedium x nitens and C. insigne Chantinii. 



DENDROBIUM x ADRASTA. 



Gard. Chron. 1892, vol. xi. p. 503 (Report of R.H.S. Orchid Committee) ; Orchid Review, 



1893, vol. i. p. 358. 



Raised by Seden from Dendrobium Pierardii and D. superbum, and the 

 first artificial hybrid in which D. Pierardii participated. 



The flowers are very pretty, having pale pink sepals and petals, and 

 have a decided primrose-yellow lip. 



DENDROBIUM x TINEAS. 



Gard. Chron. 1893, vol. xiii. p. 366 (Report of R.H.S. Orchid Committee); Orchid Review, 



1893, vol. i. p. 128. 



Raised from Dendrobium moniliforme crossed with D. crystallinum. 

 The sepals and petals are creamy white, with tips of pale rose ; the cream- 

 coloured lip tipped with rose has a curious fulvous bronze disc. 



DENDROBIUM x AINSWORTHII, var. INTERTEXTUM. 



Orchid Review, 1895, vol. iii. p. 103. 



Raised by Seden from Dendrobium nobile and Lee's variety of D. aureum. 

 The waxy-white flowers are large and handsome, the lip primrose- 

 yellow with a maroon disc ; a handsome hybrid. 



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