18 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
The right-hand flower shows the lower sepal abnormal, being much 
broader than usual, and almost like the dorsal one in colour, though the 
white is a little more predominating, as recorded at page 354 of our last 
issue. The two flowers shown are from different plants, two small pieces 
having been potted up together, but the abnormal one is showing a second 
bud, which may prove similar in character. 
We have received a somewhat similar flower from the collection of Capt. 
R. Twiss, Birdhill House, Limerick, and of which the sender remarks that 
the plant has four flowers, and last year it had two, all being alike in having 
broader coloured lower sepals, which are evidently doing their best to follow 
suit with their dorsal relation. It represents a small dark form of the 
species. 
CyPRIPEDIUM FREp. Harpy (Fig. 3) is a provisional name given to a 
very curious plant which flowered in the collection of F.. Hardy, Esq., 
Tyntesfield, Ashton-on-Mersey, and received an Award of Merit from the 
Royal Horticultural Society on November r4th last, as recorded on p. 374 
of our last issue. We then suspected it to be an albino of the preceding 
species on account of the general similarity and the identical staminode, but 
this point seems somewhat uncertain at present. It will be seen that the 
petals are relatively longer and narrower, and the shape of the dorsal sepal 
somewhat different. Mr. Stafford, Mr. Hardy’s gardener, states that it was 
sent home by Mr.R. Moore, the discoverer of Paphiopedium Charlesworthii, 
to his brother, Mr. J. W. Moore, of Bradford, as a new species, together 
with the preceding. A small bit of what appears to be something else was 
intermixed with it, which looks like a seedling, and has a rounded leaf very 
slightly mottled. This is being watched with much interest, but is not 
likely to flower for about three years. It has been suggested that the present 
plant is a natural hybrid, though the necessary evidence is not yet forth- 
coming. The photograph here reproduced was kindly sent by Mr. Hardy, 
and, although small, shows well the general character ofthe plant.’ Compared 
with ordinary P. Charlesworthii, it may be noted that the leaves have no 
purple markings beneath, the scapes are light green, the petals and lip light 
greenish yellow without markings, and the dorsal sepal is white with a little 
purple stain at the base, and these characters would be expected in an albino, 
but the cause of difference in the shape of the petals and dorsal sepal above 
pointed out is not yet explained, and the question of the correct name must 
be left for the present. _In any case, it is a beautiful addition to the group, 
and its appearance is very interesting. It has now been divided, and it is 
intended to grow one plant in the Warm and the other in the Cool house, to 
see in which it succeeds best. 
