330 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [NOVEMBER, 1915+ 
§ | CYPRIPEDIUM SANDERIANUM. | | 
CURIOUS mistake with regard to the history of Cypripedium 
Sanderianum appeared in an Obituary notice of the late Mr. Edwin 
Lonsdale, cited from the Florists’ Exchange, at page 306 of our last issue. 
It was stated that the species was found in a batch of C. Lawrenceanum, 
and was sold to Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans. Messrs. Sander inform 
us that this is quite erroneous. Some thirty years ago C. Stonei platyeenium 
was a great desideratum, and Mr. F. Sander, not then realising that it was 
a freak, despatched Forsterman to Borneo to search for it. It is hardly 
necessary to state that he did not succeed, but he found and sent home 
instead the striking novelty that is the subject of the present note. It 
flowered at St. Albans, for the first time in Europe, in the spring of 1886, 
and was described by Reichenbach (Gard. Chron., 1886, i. p. 554), the 
author remarking: “‘ This is an extraordinary surprise as well as a beauty 
from the Malayan Archipelago.” Nothing was then stated as to the circum” 
stances of its discovery, but when somewhat later it was figured in 
Reichenbachia (ser. 1, i. p. 7, t. 3) it was said to have been discovered by 
J. Forsterman. The circumstances would indicate the locality as Borneo, 
and more definite information came in 1894, when Dr. G. B. Haviland sent 
from Borneo a dried inflorescence to Kew with the record: ‘‘ From the 
Resident’s Orchid house, probably from Baram originally.” There is also a 
dried specimen in the Herbarium of the late W. H. Gower (purchased by 
Kew in 1895) with the word ‘“‘ Borneo”’ written on the ticket, though a pen 
has afterwards been run through it. 
C. Sanderianum is an ally of C. philippinense, but is markedly different 
in its much attenuated petals, which sometimes reach a length of as much 
as twenty inches, as well as in colour and other details of the flower. It is 
a Warm house species, and a very striking object when well grown. About 
a dozen hybrids from it are now known. 
The species has been unfortunate as regards its records, for in the first 
supplement to the Index Kewensis, compiled at Brussels by Durand, it is 
said to be an artificial hybrid and, although the Reichenbachia plate iS 
given, the original record is incorrectly cited. The fact is, it has been 
confused with C. Saundersianum (caudatum x Schlimii), but here again 
both the author and the original reference are wrongly cited (see note on 
page 346). 
It is curious to note that the preceding reference in the Index Kewensis 
is also erroneous, for the C. Sanderz there given as a synonym of C. 
Sanderianum is the well-known C. callosum Sandere. 
