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Probably Reichenbach overlooked ‘the preceding when, in 1882, he 
described Aérides illustre as ‘‘n. hyb. nat. ?”’ (Gard. Chron., 1882, ii. p.-71). 
He remarked : ‘‘ Grand and glorious as this plant is, it is very difficult. . It 
was selected out of an importation of Aérides crispum at Mr. Low’s by 
reason of its having very broad and short leaves, with comparatively few 
dark spots. Now these broad leaves and the apparently unbranched 
raceme keep it away from Aérides maculosum.. It has also larger flowers, 
sepals and petals much broader, with a lilac hue on the white colour, and 
with very few blotches, mostly only on the inner side of the petals. The 
lip is grand, conspicuous by its finest amethyst purple, with those 
longitudinal marks at the base which form a character of maculosum.. The 
basal callus is bigeminous, sulcate in the middle. The spur is exserted, 
and quite that of A. maculosum. The column gives me the impression of 
being intermediate between the long one of A. crispum and the short one of 
A.maculosum. I obtained this grand thing from Sir Trevor Lawrence.” 
Of this, unfortunately, neither specimen nor figure is available for 
comparison. Messrs. Veitch associate it doubtfully with A. crispum (Man. 
Orch., vii. p. 57), but it is clearly intermediate, and may be only a form of 
A. Schrader If the pollen of A. maculosum is available, it would be 
interesting to cross the two species together. R. A. ROLFE. 
ees | - HARDY CYPRIPEDIUMS. Ze | 
ORTH America was formerly thought to be the headquarters of the 
hardy Cypripediums, several of which have long been known in 
gardens, but the discoveries of recent years have shown that they are still 
more numerous in Eastern Asia, and in view of the probability of more of 
them being introduced to cultivation a correspondent suggests that some 
notes on them would be interesting. The remark recalls the fact that an 
outline of the genus was given in these pages in 1896 (O.R., iv. pp- 332-334)» 
at which time 28 species were known, and it would be useful to enumerate 
those that have since been described. We may taken them in their 
chronological order. 
C. YaTapEanuM, Makino in Bot. Mag. Tokyo, xiii. p. 91.—A Japanese 
Species, described in 1899, from materials collected on Mt. Togakushi-yama, 
In the province of Shinano, by R. Yatabe. The Japanese name is given as 
Kibana-no-atsumoriso, and it is said to be closely allied to C. guttatum, 
Swartz, but to be remarkable for the clavate-spathulate apex of the petals. 
The sepals and petals are yellowish-green and the lip purplish. 
C. vecanum, Cockerell & Barker, in Proc. Biol. Soc. Washingt., xiv. ps 
178.—A North American species, described in 1901, from materials collected 
