34 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
leaving the former light green and the latter white, but with the char- 
acteristic shape. The plant is weak and the flower small, but it is very 
distinct, and it is hoped will remain constant as it becomes srOneeS A 
good C. X Leeanum punctatissimum is also enclosed. 
A handsome form of Cypripedium x Charles Richman has been sent | 
from the collection of Mrs. Barton, Little Silver, High Bickington, N. 
Devon. The dorsal sepal is over 2 inches across, light red-purple with 
darker veins, the petals over 2} inches long, similar in colour with very 
numerous minute dark purple dots, except at the apex, and the lip and 
staminode very dark. It is a richly coloured, but little spotted variety, and 
was purchased as an unflowered seedling eighteen months ago for £10. 
A very beautiful form of Cypripedium x tessellatum has been sent from 
the collection of W. M. Appleton, Esq., of Weston-super-Mare. It is one 
of Mr. Appleton’s own raising, from C. concolor ? and C. barbatum 
Warneri 3, and most resembles the former in general character, except that 
the sepals, petals, and lip are strongly suffused with the bright red-purple 
shade, derived from C barbatum, for which this hybrid is so remarkable. 
A very good form of C. insigne, and three different forms of C. 
Spicerianum, are also sent from the same collection, one being dark, and 
another much lighter than usual in the coloured parts of the flower. 
Mr. Appleton also writes:—‘‘The Cypripedium insigne with three 
pouches, which you figured some time ago (III., p. 361), has again flowered 
this year, and all four flowers had three pouches, as those which came 
before.” It would thus appear that the peculiarity is permanent. 
Respecting the abnormal Paphiopedium Charlesworthii figured at 
page 15, Dr. Hoisholt writes that the second bud has now expanded, and, 
like the first, has the lower sepal three-quarters as large as the dorsal one 
and similarly coloured. Like so many other pecularities of this kind, it 
will probably prove permanent. 
A very pretty yellow form of Cypripedium insigne is sent from the 
collection of F. Hardy, Esq., Tyntesfield, Ashton-on-Mersey, which is 
almost identical with C. i. Sanderianum (Orch. Rev., I. p. 145, fig. 10). It 
appeared as a small growth in the centre of a very common type of C. 
insigne, out of a recent importation of the “‘ montanum ” type. 
A very pretty hybrid Cattleya is also sent from the same collection, the 
result of a cross between C. Leopoldi and C, Mendelii, between which it 
Is quite intermediate, The sepals and petals are light rose-pink, and the 
