324 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
CYPRIPEDIUM INSIGNE SANDERA FROM SEED. 
“In February 1895, Mr. H. J. Chapman fertilised Cypripedium insigne 
Sanderze with its own pollen in Mr. R. I. Measures’ Collection, at Camber- 
well. The seed ripened in the spring of 1896, and germinated in a few 
days, the seedlings being pricked off in the autumn of the same year. The 
plants have grown satisfactorily since, and on October 7th the first flower 
opened. It has the true character of the typical variety, but appears to be 
more vigorous than the parent, which is the plant originally introduced.”— 
Gard. Mag., 1900, p. 666. 
[This note is very interesting, and supplies further evidence that 
albinos comes true from seed when fertilised with their own pollen. Two 
previous cases are those of C. callosum Sanderz and C. Lawrenceanum 
Hyeanum, both raised true from seed by Mr. Norman C. Cookson, as 
recorded in these pages. And there is the equally significant case of C. X 
Maudiz (described at page 308), a hybrid raised by Messrs. Charlesworth & 
Co, from C. Lawrenceanum Hyeanum crossed with the pollen of C. callosum 
Sanderz, which shows that albino hybrids may be raised from albino forms 
of the parent species. Had one parent been the normal form there might 
have been reversion, but as it is, C. X Maudiz is as true an albino as either 
of its parents. Such evidence is important to breeders.—ED.]. 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
PAPHIOPEDILUM X HELEN. 
TuIs is a distinct and pretty hybrid, raised in the collection ot Sir 
Frederick Wigan, Clare Lawn, East Sheen, between P. Dayanum and 
P. Charlesworthii, and we have now received a flower from Mr. Young. 
It was exhibited at the R. H. S. meeting on October 23rd as Cypripedum 
x Helen. It shows very clearly its parentage, the dorsal sepal being 
reticulated with rose ona white ground, except at the rather darker base, and 
the staminode ivory white, while in shape these parts, as well as the lip 
and petals, approach rather nearer to P. Dayanum, whose strongly ciliate 
petals can be clearly traced in the hybrid. It is interesting to find that 
the remarkable porcelain white staminode and beautiful rose-coloured 
dorsal sepal of P. Charlesworthii come out so strongly in its hybrids, 
which are becoming a very interesting little group, and one likely to receive 
many accessions in the near future. 
L&Lio-caATTLEYA X ELLA. 
When describing Lelio-cattleya x Stella at page 319 we overlooked 
the fact that the name had already been used for a hybrid between Lelia 
crispa and L.-c. x elegans. The present one may be renamed as above- 
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