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by Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., early in 1907, but the variety was known 
much earlier, having received a First-class Certificate from the R.H.S. in 
September, 1892. Its history was given at page 326 of our sixth volume 
(where, by a typographical error, the date 1892 is given as 1822). It is one 
of the rarest and most beautiful of albino Cattleyas. 
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HE confusion of the Bornean Cypripedium Sanderianum with the above 
artificial hybrid has been alluded to on page 326, and it may be 
interesting to give the history of the latter, for it has been the subject of a 
good deal of uncertainty. It was originally described by Reichenbach in 
1886 (Gard. Chron., 1886, ii. p. 654). The author then remarked :— 
** When I was at Mr. Lee’s, in the most agreeable company of Mr. Day, 
we saw a splendid Cypripedium of unknown parentage obtained from Mr. 
W. Bull. It was indeed the first flower. The peduncle was not long, the 
bract not well developed, yet the plant looked as if in very good spirits, 
and no doubt it will prove to be an uncommon beauty. The one parent 
was probably C. Schlimii, or C. Sedeni, but the other one.’ He was 
apparently unable to offer any suggestion, but, after describing it, he added: 
“This may one day be a favourite with Orchidists provided more specimens 
appear. I look forward to its improvement in future. I feel very pleased 
that it should be associated with the name of our lamented friend, a 
wonderful man in his ardent love of nature and its treasures.” 
Nearly two years later another note appeared as follows: “A GOoD 
INVESTMENT.—We learn that Mr. William Bull, of King’s Road, Chelsea, 
has just purchased from the Leatherhead collection the rare Cypripedium 
Saundersianum for £300. It is interesting to note this at a time when 
there is a depression in many other things, for we hear this very plant was 
purchased by the recent owner in the autumn of 1883 for 50 guineas. "— 
Gard. Chron., 1888, i. p. 113. 
Definite evidence of the parentage was given in Mr. Bull’s Catalogue for 
1888 (p. 8), where it is said to be a hybrid between C. caudatum and C. 
Schlimii, and the history was more fully given by Mr. Lewis Castle in the 
Journal of Horticulture (1888, i. p. 80). This account is here summarised :— 
‘The Cypripedium, which was noted last week as having been purchased 
by Mr. W. Bull for £300, was inadvertently given as C. Sanderianum, but 
it should have been given as C. Saundersianum, a quite distinct and 
remarkable hybrid. It is, however, so scarce and so little known that it 
deserves a special descriptive and historical note. I have been favoured 
CYPRIPEDIUM SAUNDERSIANUM. 
