16 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
PAPHIOPEDIUM CHARLESWORTHII AND 
P. SPICERIANUM. 
THE accompanying illustration, which is reproduced from an excellent 
photograph sent by Dr. A. W. Holsholt, of Stockton, California, 
serves to show the difference between Paphiopedium Charlesworthii 
and its nearest ally, P. Spiceranium, and also a peculiarity of the 
former, to which allusion was made at page 354 of our last volume, 
namely, the lower sepal being broad and coloured like the dorsal one. On 
the opposite page, for convenience of comparison, is given a figure of the 
Fic. 1. PAPHIOPEDIUM SPICERIANUM. Fic. 2. P. CHARLESWORTHII. 
remarkable plant, provisionally named ‘‘ Cypripedium Fred. Hardy,’’ whose 
origin is somewhat doubtful ; whether it is an albino of thelatter or a natural 
hybrid between it and some other species being uncertain. The different 
plants will be noted in the order of their introduction. 
PAPHIOPEDIUM SPICERIANUM, or Cypripedium Spicerianum, to cite its 
better known name (Fig. 1), first flowered in Europe in the autumn of 1879, 
