THE ORCHID REVIEW. 39 
PAPHIOPEDILUM FAIRRIEANUM AND ITS HYBRIDS. 
(Continued from page 10.) 
Two beautiful secondary hybrids have also been raised to which P. 
Fairrieanum stands in the relation of pollen parent, both of them in the 
establishment of Messrs. James Veitch and Son, and both flowered for the 
first time during 1896. 
P. X REGINA is a seedling from P. x Leeanum, and thus may be 
described as having some of the characteristics of both P. insigne and P. 
Spicerianum, derived through their descendant P. x Leeanum. It received 
an Award of Merit from the R.H.S... The blood of the original species is 
thus represented in it: Fairrieanum 4, insigne $, and Spicerianum +, and 
it is curious to note that a hybrid between P. x Arthurianum and P. x 
Niobe would show an exactly identical analysis. Those who cannot make 
the original cross, for want of Fairrieanum pollen, might make the 
alternative cross, and the result would certainly be interesting. 
P. X BARON ScHRGDER is a seedling from P. X cenanthum superbum, 
and is one of the most beautiful of the group, having received a First-class 
Certificate from the R.H.S. Its ancestry is rather complex, and an 
analysis shows: Fairrieanum 4, insigne 4, villosum and barbatum each 3. 
A hybrid called C. x Germaine Opoix (Grignan in Le Jardin, 1899, p. 303), 
is apparently a form of this, the parents being P. Fairrieanum anda form 
of P. x cenanthum called Madame Coffinet. It was raised by M. Opoix, at 
Luxembourg, but it is not recorded which was the seed parent. It is said 
to bear a considerable resemblance to P. X Arthurianum, but to be larger, 
more compact, and more richly coloured. 
Still more interesting, if correct, is the record of a hybrid from P. X 
Niobe X Fairrieanum (ante, vii., pp. 132, 164), for this would show the 
unique character of a hybrid three-fourths derived from P. Fairreanum. 
We hope to receive a flower of it during the coming season. 
The influence of P. Fairrieanum may be traced still further through its 
hybrids, of which the following are recorded :— 
P. x vexillarium (¢ ) x barbatum = x Singletonianum. 
” (3) x bellatulum = x bellatulo - vexil- 
arium. 
” (2) x x Gratrixiz. 
” (s) x hirsutissimum = x Jensenianum. 
” (3) x Spicerianum x Statterianum. 
9 CF x Stonei i x Apollo. 
» (3) x calophyllum = x Pheebe. 
€83 x Io x vexill-Io. 
P. x Niobe (td) x Spicerianum = x Norma. 
