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A second variety appeared in 1885, with Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. 
Albans, differing from the preceding in having numerous small reddish spots 
on the inside of the sepals and petals. It was named var. punctatissimum 
(Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron., 1885, XXIV., p-. 134). 
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CYPRIPEDIUM x SALLIERI. 
A CURIOUS question has arisen as to the origin of Cypripedium x Sallieri. 
Williams, in his Orchid-Growers’ Manual (ed. 7, page 297), says :—“‘ This is 
said to be a cross between Cypripedium villosum and C. insigne, but we 
have seen a plant which flowered in Mr. Shuttleworth’s nursery, which 
had been imported from Burma, and which proved to be exactly like 
this plant ; moreover, we learn that Mr. Sallier disclaims any knowledge 
of this being a hybrid.” A writer in the Journal of Horticulture (Jan. 7th, 
p- II) apropos of ‘‘ Hybrid Cypripediums,” also remarks :—‘In_ the 
second paragraph of my note on this subject, page 556 [where he had 
repeated the exploded fallacy that hybrid Cypripediums do not occur 
in a wild state], I should have made an exception in favour of C. Sallieri, 
as this plant certainly appears to be a natural hybrid between C. insigne 
and C. villosum. It has the dorsal sepal of the former, while the petals 
have the decided median line as seen in C. villosum, and also the shining 
brown tint peculiar to that species. CC. Sallieri is named after a French 
gardener, who was supposed to have raised it by crossing these two species, 
but who, as a matter of fact, selected it from other plants of C. insigne, and 
sent it out as C. Sallieri. It has also been imported since by several 
Orchidists, and not long since I saw a specimen—a C. S. Hyeanum—that 
flowered from an importation of C. insigne. This exception, however, does 
not alter the fact that natural hybrids in the genus are few and far between.” 
This definite statement of the plant’s origin I am unable to trace in its 
recorded history. It was first recorded in 1885, on the authority of M. 
Godefroy Lebeuf, as a presumed hybrid between C. villosum and C. insigne 
(Bergman in Rev. Hort., 1885, p. 476), but without further record of its 
origin, and two years later M. Godefroy himself repeated the statement, 
adding that some dispute had arisen as to the origin of the plant ; that those 
_ who had obtained it thought it to be simply a form of insigne, which it was 
not ; and that a hybrid raised by Mr. J. C. Bowring, of Forest Farm, 
Windsor, between C. insigne and C. villosum, had flowered, and proved to 
be the same, thus confirming the supposed origin of C. X Sallieri 
(Orchidophile, 1887, p. 33.) Three months afterwards the latter plant was 
figured in Lindenia (II., p. 75, t. 84). Veitch added the information that the 
original plant is a hybrid which appeared in the collection of Madame 
Fould, at the Chateau du Val, near St. Germain, France; by whom raised 
