THE ORCHID REVIEW. 45 
wanting in the case of the green and black Cymbidium Humblotii. This is 
another little matter which may possibly have to be left until the 
Reichenbachian Herbarium is opened. 
In my notes for November last (page 329), I had occasion to discuss the 
question of specific names for hybrids, and I am glad to find that M. 
Cogniaux fully agrees with my remarks. In the Chronique Orchidéene 
(p. 266), he remarks that the nomenclature of hybrids is becoming ex- 
tremely confused, because they are frequently named without regard to any 
rule, and, considering the number of novelties which appear almost daily, it 
may be asked how, in a few years time, it will be possible to trace them, 
unless we at once adopt some better system. An effective remedy for this 
confusion would be to reject all specific names—(1), if the cross bétween 
the same two species has already been properly named—(2), which are not 
latinised—and (3), which are formed of more than two words (two being 
admissible in a few cases where they can be joined by a hyphen). “ We 
desire greatly,” he adds, “‘ that the principal organs of the Horticultural Press 
should give us thetr views on these three points.” The italics are his. 
It would appear that the question is passing into the practical stage, for 
I see that in the interesting article on ‘‘ Paphiopedilum Fairrieanum and its 
hybrids,” commenced last month, the names P. X Ballantinei and P. xX 
Amesig appear, instead of ‘‘H. Ballantine” and ‘ Mrs. F. L. Ames”—a 
practical application of the R.H.S. Rules of Nomenclature, which seem to 
have been almost forgotten, and, I hope, the commencement of a better 
state of things in the future. 
A correspondent, alluding to the article just mentioned, writes :— 
‘* Personally, I think P. x Fairrieano-Lawrenceanum worthy of a more 
euphonious name ; I am met hone of these combinations. Fancy writing 
Pox C ! It would be too much for any 
ordinary gardener.’ I quite agree; it is an old botanical rule which seems 
better honoured in the breach than the observance. I remember that it 
was very fully discussed in an article on the “‘ Nomenclature of Hybrids” 
last year, (ante vii., pp. 106-109.) 
Here is an example of what this system of nomenclature would be 
capable of if applied to Orchids (please take a separate line for it, Mr. 
Printer) : — 
, eee | | hl - a: pay nnvy 
Rubus 
It is, happily; not an Orchid; it is the name of a hybrid bramble, and I 
came across it in a recent work, entitled—Nova Synopsis Ruborum 
