24 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JANUARY, 1922. 
was that derived, although in some cases remotely, from Cypripedium 
Fairrieanum. The dainty contours of this charming old species were 
readily discernible. Many of the present day large flowered hybrids, 
admirable as they admittedly are, lack colour, but flowers embracing beauty 
of outline and colour, as do these derivatives of Fairrieanum, will always 
be more attractive to the general public. Flowers in which mere size is the 
dominating character are never so pleasing. 
The following briefly descriptive list will show to a certain extent the 
influence Fairrieanum has had in breeding the Westonbirt Cypripediums :— 
C. Lucifer (Hera x Niobe), F.C.C. var. Flowers compact and shapely, 
medium size, dorsal sepal richly suffused and streaked with rose-crimson on 
a white ground, petals and pouch mahogany-chestnut. 
C. Pam, parentage unknown, but evidently with Fairrieanum as an 
ancestor, near or remote. A charming fiower, the margins of the broad 
dorsal nearly in line with the outer edges of the drooping petals, ground 
colour white, upper sepal green at the base, the whiteness of the upper 
portion broken with interrupted lines of rose spots, petals and lip similarly | 
coloured, but in contrast by reason of their delightful apple-green suffusion. 
C. Marmion (Germain Opoix X Jura) stood alone in colour, a large 
well-proportioned flower, crimson bordered with white on the dorsal, the 
colour extending into the white margin in jagged markings, petals aud 
pouch red-brown, lightest on the latter segment. 
C. Baldur (G. F. Moore x Niobe), well named after the most handsome 
and gentle of the Norse gods, yet a companion to Cyp. Lucifer, but taller on 
the spike, the dorsal sepal higher than its width and so suffused, marked 
and streaked with crimson-rose as to appear almost solid; petals shaded 
with yellow on the basal portions, otherwise coloured with the pleasing 
red-brown tint peculiar to so many Fairrieanum hybrids. 
C. Corsair (Niobe x nitens). There are several forms of this graceful 
and pleasing hybrid in the country, but the present one is larger than the 
majority, and of more intense coloration. Dorsal sepal deep rose centrally, 
the outer halves rayed and striated with bright rose, the whole bordered 
with white. Petals and pouch models in Proportions, the former lined, 
and the latter suffused with deep mahogany. 
C. Nydia (Niobe x nitens-Leeanum), A decided addition to this 
section, resemblng Baldour and Lucifer in 
but the dorsal is rounder, and its dark 
conspicuous by the pure white on either side 
C. Latona (Alcibiades x Niobe). Again the characteristic Fairrieanum 
Sel are prominent, but the dorsal sepal is much larger than usual, with 
mie upper portion white and the low ith gr ile lig . 
Cas PRO a er shaded with green, while light rose 
general formation and colouring, 
median line is rendered more 
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