x. HISTORY OF ORCHID HYBRIDISATION 
and both were distributed by Messrs. Veitch. They are now referred to 
Paphiopedilum. 
Mr. Seden next appeared upon the scene, having succeeded Mr. Dominy 
in the work at the Royal Exotic Nursery. His first hybrid was described 
as Cypripedium or Selenipedium x Sedeni. It was obtained by crossing 
Selenipedium longifolium with the pollen of S. Schlimii, and vice versa, 
both crosses flowering for the first time in 1873, and proving absolutely 
identical. It is a handsome hybrid, combining the best characters of both 
parents, and is now known as Phragmopedilum x Sedenii. 
In 1873, also, what was really the first secondary hybrid appeaed, through 
it was described under the name of Cattleya x fausta. It was said to be 
“‘just intermediate between C. Loddigesii, as the 2, or seed parent, and 
C. X exoniensis, as the 3, or pollen parent. Two forms were described at 
the outset—the typical form, with rosy-lilac sepals and petals and a paler 
lip, and the variety radicans, distinguished by the presence of a number of 
dark purplish veins and streaks on the anterior part of the lip. Thus it 
afforded an indication of what has since been repeatedly confirmed, namely, 
that secondary hybrids are especially variable, plants raised from the same 
seed-pod often exhibiting great dissimilarity between themselves. It is 
now known as Leliocattleya x fausta. 
The genus Dendrobium was next added to the list. In February, 1874, 
Dendrobium X Ainsworthii flowered for the first time, and received a First- 
class Certificate. It was raised in the collection of Dr. Ainsworth, of 
Lower Broughton, near Manchester, by Mr. Mitchell, between D. aureum 
? and D. nobile 3, and the seed is said to have been sown about seven 
years previously. It has since been recorded that plants of the same cross 
were raised by Mr. West, at the Fairfield Nursery, near Manchester, at 
about the same time. 
The year 1874 also saw the additions of two other genera, Chysis and 
Zygopetalum, to the list, as the result of Mr. Seden’s industry. 
Chysis X Sedeni was recorded as a hybrid seedling between C. 
Limminghei @ and C. bractescens 3, but Reichenbach suggested C. levis 
as the pollen parent, which is clearly corrrect. 
Zygopetalum xX Sedeni was described as a hybrid between Z. Mackayi 
and Z. maxillare, the latter being the seed parent. It received a First- 
class Certificate from the Horticultural Society. 
Hybrid Orchids were now decidedly on the increase, for at least ten were 
recorded during 1876, three of which were the work of new operators. 
The first hybrid raised in the collection of John C. Bowring, Esq 
Forest Farm, Windsor, was Cypripedium X_ stenophyllum, its parents 
being C. Schlimi and C. caricinum. It is now referred to Phragmo- 
pedilum. 
