5° THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
variation may be expected in future, as other seedlings reach the flowering 
stage, for P. insigne is itself extremely variable. It would be interesting to 
try the effect of combining the beautiful yellow P. insigne Sander with a 
richly coloured form of P. Charlesworthii, for it is at least possible that a 
very distinct variety would result. The photograph here reproduced was 
kindly sent by Arthur S. Hitchins, Esq., of St. Austell, and is taken from a 
second seedling which flowered shortly after the one described. 
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PAPHIOPEDILUM a ‘LEEANUM AS A WILD PLANT. 
INFORMATION “seems. to. be. eradually accumulating ‘with respect to the 
occurrence of Paphiopedilum x Leeanum as a wild plant, as the following 
will show :— ; , 
In American Gardening for December 23rd last, appears a note by 
Mr. Oakes Ames, entitled “A natural hybrid Cypripedium Xx Leeanum,” 
accompanied by a figure (vol. xx., p. 874, fig. 219). The author remarks 
that it bloomed among plants of insigne imported two or three years 
ago, and seems to be a natural hybrid, having characteristics of the 
garden hybrid C. X Leeanum. “That the plant has C. Spicerianum 
in it in some degree seems highly probable.” The dorsal sepal is much 
narrower than in the ordinary cultivated form, though in the spotting, 
the narrow, undulate petals, and the shape of the staminode, it is more 
like Leeanum than insigne, and although somewhat anomalous in shape, 
it is probably a hybrid, as suggested.: It would be much easier to judge 
from the actual flower than from the sketch. 
The second note is by Mr. A. E. P. Griessen, in the issue of Indian 
Gardening for January 11th (vol. vi., p. 20). After alluding to the various é 2 
notes that appeared on the subject, he remarks:—‘‘ Mr. C. H. Swindon, ~ 
an enthusiastic Orchid amateur residing in the neighbourhood of Calcutta, 
has also witnessed the above case in his collection, and was kind enough 
to bring us the plant for identification. . . . This peculiar natural 
hybrid came out of some importations received by him from various 
localities. It is very unfortunate not to know the particular one. 
However, the plant is undoubtedly the result of a cross between C. 
insigne and C. Spicerianum . . . the owner having found this plant 
amongst direct importations. . . . The flower appears exactly inter- " 
mediate between the two typical species.” 
Mr. Griessen also alludes to the records respecting C. x Sallieri, and 
adds :—*‘ Following the rules of possibility, there is no reason why Cs 
Lathamianum, which is the result of a cross between C. Spicerianum 
and villosum, will not also occur in the wild state.” 
These are interesting contributions to the question, and I can re-echo 
