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column, and consequently was absent from the lip. The latter was divided 
to the base, but the inner margin of each half consisted of a band of petal- 
like tissue, not the stouter tissue which occupies this position in the normal 
lip, and of which the ftee side lobes were composed in this particular 
example. I therefore believe that the supposed missing stamen is normally 
confluent with the lip in this group, thus modifying its texture as compared 
with that of the petals. This explanation is in harmony with some other 
observed facts, and gives these abnormal flowers an interest which would 
otherwise frequently be lacking. 
R. A. Be 
PAPHIOPEDILUM x NITENS AS A WILD PLANT. 
A short time ago I received a flower (and afterwards a plant), from the 
collection of W. A. Evans, Esq., of Leicester, which was clearly a hybrid 
between Paphiopedilum insigne and P. villosum. This particular plant 
came out of a batch of P. insigne ‘‘montanum,” and from its weathered 
appearance was evidently an imported plant. The flower on the whole 
resembled the typical P. insigne, in both form and colour, but the influence 
of P. villosum was unmistakable :—(1) In the long hairs of the scape, 
ovary, and upper sepal. (2) The elongated bract and lower sepal. (3) The 
spathulate, curled petals, varnished brown, with prominent mid-line. (4) 
The long, acute lip, with horns wide and deep. (5) The long and narrow 
staminode. (6) The erect habit of growth, glossy, dark green leaves, dotted 
with purple at the base beneath. The foliage of this hybrid is even more 
tell-tale than the flowers, so much so, that last year when I saw the plant, 
unflowered, among the P. insigne, I suggested to Mr. Evans that it might 
be P. villosum, not then suspecting it to be a natural hybrid. For garden 
purposes, this plant comes very near to P. X nitens var. Sallieri.. 
C. CHAMBERLAIN HuRST, F.L.S. 
PAPHIOPEDILUM x LEEANUM AS A WILD PLANT. 
The wild form of Paphiopedilum x Leeanum, of which an account 
by Mr. Griesson was given at page 50, is figured in Indian Gardening for 
January 25th (vol. vi., P- 54, fig. 5), and quite bears out what has been 
said respecting it. It is clearly a hybrid between P. insigne and P. 
Spicerianum, and one of the forms without spots on the dorsal sepal. The 
definite information now to hand recalls the curious plant known as 
Cypripedium insigne Measuresiz (Orch. Rev., vii, p. 76), and it becomes 
increasingly evident that it also is another form of this wild hybrid. 
Ry A. 
