THE ORCHID REVIEW. 85 
CYPRIPEDIUM SANDERZA. 
WE have received from H. Gurney Aggs, Esq., Pippbrook, Dorking, a 
flower of Cypripedium villosum with the following note :—‘‘I enclose the 
flower of a Cypripedium that was bought by me last March at Messrs. 
Protheroe & Morris’s Sale Rooms, provisionally named Cypripedium 
Sandere, but as you will see it turns out to be only C. villosum. As 
there were a large number of plants sold it would be of interest to know 
if others have flowered it, and if with the same result. I think I 
remember seeing a painting of. the supposed flower, and it was described 
as the Mastersianum of the cool district. I have two or three other plants, 
and shall be curious to see how they turn out.’”’ The flower sent is an 
ordinary C. villosum, and suffices to show the value of the above name, 
which certainly ought not to have been given. We had not previously 
seen it in flower. If our readers will turn to page 139 of our last volume 
they will find some remarks by ‘“ Argus,’ and one of his correspondents 
upon the subject, and the doubts about the plant’s identity may now be 
set at rest, unless indeed other correspondents can throw any new light 
upon it. 
DENDROBIUMS IN SEASON. 
WE have received from Mr. James Cypher, Queen’s Road Nursery, 
Cheltenham, a series of most beautiful Dendrobiums, which show how 
successful is the method of culture adopted, which was given in detail 
at pages 53—55 of our third volume. It is well known that Mr. Cypher 
makes a speciality of this genus, and many of our readers will remember 
the two plants to which Cultural Commendations were awarded at the last 
meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society. 
The series sent includes eight varieties of D. nobile; the well-known 
D. n. nobilius, with its very large and richly-coloured flowers, ccerulescens 
rather smaller but very similar in colour; Sanderianum, also very dark and 
with short broad segments; Cooksoni, with its lip-like petals; pendulum, 
-——with very large flowers about typical in colouring; Wallichii, with smaller 
flowers somewhat similar in colour; pulcherrimum, a beautiful white with 
purple-tipped sepals, petals and lip; and Cypheri with less purple on the 
tips of the segments, and the sepals light blush pink, especially on the 
back. Some of these were figured at page 113 of our second volume, and 
a complete list with descriptions was given a year later (pp. 147—150). 
Of the hybrids between the preceding species and D. aureum are 
D. xX Ainsworthii and its variety roseum, for the one called Cypher’s 
variety seems sufficiently identical with this, which is said to have come 
