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raceme of flowers six inches long ; the flowers are more 

 than an inch long, tubular, the segments scarcely spread- 

 ing, and the stamens are about half as long again as the 

 tube. The color of the fl iwers is bright primrose-yellow. 

 Kew is indebted to Herr Max Leichtlin for this plant, who 

 sent it in 1894 with the information that it was from Natal 

 and that it flowered in winter. When it first flowered it 



to interference with well-established plant names except 

 for very strong reasons. It appears ihat Professor Pfitzer, 

 of Heidelberg, has thought fit to revive certain obsolete 

 names and to divide the old genus Cypripedium into four. 

 Until now we have recognized two, namely, Cypripedium 

 and Selenipedium, the latter name being applied to all the 

 South American representatives of the tribe. Even this 



Fig. 10. — Hoodia Gordoni. — See page 76. 



was thought to be a pale form of K. Natalensis. Grown in 

 pots to flower in the greenhouse in winter it is a useful 

 decorative plant, or it may be grown in the open ground 

 and lifted in October, to be planted under glass. 



Cypripedium. — In the December number of Tlie Orchid 

 Revieiv, Mr. Rolfe published a revision of Cypripediea^ which 

 is likely to meet with the disapproval of those who object 



name, however, was not recognized by many, Veitch de- 

 clining to adopt it in his Manual of Orchids. The new 

 arrangement is as follows : 



1. Cypripedium proper is to be limited to the terrestrial 

 deciduous species represented by C. spectabile, C. Japoni- 

 cum, C. calceolus, etc. 



2. Paphiopedium is the proposed name for all the Old 



