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is not known, but named in compliment to M. Sallier, Madame Fould’s 
gardener (Man. Orch., IV., p. 97). This original plant has since been 
figured (Godefr. & Brown, Les Cypriped., t. 6), but nothing additional is 
recorded as to its history. Mr. Bowring’s seedling, figured in Lindenia from 
the collection of M. Jules Hye, is more yellow than the original, and is 
called var. Hyeanum in gardens, and var. aureum by Williams (Orch. 
Gr. Man, p. 297). 
How far the statements repeated in the first paragraph of this article are 
based upon reliable information must be left for the reader to judge—unless, 
indeed, the writers will explain—but the plant is undoubtedly a hybrid, 
and, so far as I can ascertain, the two parent species grow far apart, C. 
insigne in the Khasia hills and C. villosum in the Tenasserim district of 
Burma. Captain Grant omits C. insigne from his ‘“‘ Orchids of Burma,” 
and follows Williams in considering C. x Sallieri to be a species, which it 
certainly is not. As to its having come from India with C. insigne, a 
curious side-light is thrown on the question by the plant called C. insigne 
pulchellum (Orch. Rev., III., p. 105), which flowered in the collection of 
C. G. Roebling, Esq., Trenton, New Jersey. It is said to have been 
received by Mr. Férstermann in a consignment sent from the Khasia hills 
by his collector, Massmann, and to have then flowered for the first time. 
This, however, has proved to be a form of C. xX Sallieri, yet individually 
different from either of the forms mentioned above. C. villosum, however, 
is not known from Khasia, so that the authenticity of the record seems open 
to question. What will be the ultimate explanation of these contradictory 
statements I cannot say. Perhaps some one can tell us whether this hybrid 
is cultivated in India, or whether it has also been raised there. Some of the 
records are certainly incorrect, and I have a strong suspicion that all which 
attribute the origin of C. x Sallieri to anything but artificial hybridisation 
have no foundation in fact. 
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CYPRIPEDIUM x DAUTHIERI SPORT. 
FuRTHER information about the sportive character of Cypripedium X 
Dauthieri is recorded (Gard. Chron., Jan. 23rd, p. 62). Thereisa plant in 
the establishment of Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, which in some 
years produces flowers of the usual character, while in others they are 
smaller in size, thinner in texture, pale in colour, indeed quite free frem the 
rich colouring of the nerves in the dorsal sepal. This year the plant has 
produced one of these degenerate flowers at the same time as the normal 
ones, and it appears that the normal flowers remain in perfection longer 
than the others. The vagaries of this Cypripedium have been fully recorded 
in our pages. 
