170 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
Merit was given. We have no record of its history, but from the name 
given we presume it to be a seedling from C. concolor crossed with 
bellatulum. The flower is light yellow spotted with purple-brown, and 
much resembles some forms of C. Godefroyz, which there are grounds for 
suspecting may be a hybrid derived trom this parentage. 
CYPRIPEDIUM X CHAPMANII MAGNIFICUM. 
The original Cypripedium Chapmanii was derived from C. Curtisii 2 and 
C. bellatulum 3, and the present from the reversed cross. The latter was 
exhibited at the Temple Show by R. I. Measures, Esq., Cambridge Lodge, 
Camberwell, and received a First Class Certificate. It is a large and hand- 
some hybrid, most like C. bellatulum in shape, and chiefly differs from the 
type in having lost the greenish area at the apex of the dorsal sepal, that 
organ being regularly striped and reticulated with purple on a cream- 
white ground. The petals are thickly covered with small purple spots, and 
the lip and staminode are most like C. bellatulum. It is a very handsome 
variety. 
CURIOUS CYPRIPEDIUM SEEDLINGS. 
A twin-flowered scape of a seedling Cypripedium has been sent from the 
collection of Reginald Young, Esq., Sefton Park, Liverpool, which has a 
curious history. A flower of C. callosum was hybridised in December, 
1892, with the pollen of C. X microchilum, the pod swelled, and the seed 
was sown in December, and in May following seedlings appeared. The 
first has now produced a twin-flowered scape, and curiously enough no trace 
of the pollen parent can be detected, as the flowers are indistinguishable 
from those of C. callosum. Whether the remaining seedlings will behave 
in the same way remains to be proved, but Mr. Young states that the cross 
was most carefully made and recorded, and there is no possibility of mistake 
as to the history of the seedlings. It recalls the case of C. barbatum 
crossed with niveum in the same collection, recorded at page 309 of our 
last volume, where the seedlings flowered as C. barbatum instead of C. X 
Tautzianum, as was expected, and is as inexplicable as the freaks of 
Zygopetalum Mackayi, which have been recorded. The very fact that 
Cypripediums hybridise so readily increases the difficulty of offering an ~- 
explanation, and we shall hope to hear of the behaviour of the remaining 
seedlings; also of any similar cases which may have occurred in other 
collections. 
