196 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
A hybrid Cypripedium from the collection of H. J. Ross, Esq., of 
Florence, believed to have been raised from C. x Io grande and C. 
Lawrenceanum was noted at page 132. It is requested that this plant be 
named C. Xx Vanninil, after Mr. Ross’s excellent gardener. 
A very pretty hybrid Dendrobium has been sent by Messrs. F. Sander 
& Co., St. Albans, from the cross, as recorded in their books, Dendrobium 
aureum X D. sanguinolentum, which it is suggested can hardly be correct. 
The flower is white, somewhat after the general style of D. x endocharis, 
with pinkish-purple tips to the segments, and the disc of the lip of a some- 
what similar but darker shade. We do not remember anything like it, and 
after the erratic behaviour of some recently recorded crosses should not be 
surprised if the record is correct—a point which may be left for the present. 
A most beautiful albino of Cypripedium Regine, better known as C. 
spectabile, might recently be seen in the Orchid house at Kew, in which the 
rose-pink colour had vanished from the lip, leaving it as pure snow-white as 
the sepals and petals, the only colour being the small yellow blotch on the 
staminode, and the peculiarity gives it a most distinct appearance. The 
old specific name of C. album given by Aiton has been superseded by the 
still older C. Regine, but can be most appropriately revived for the variety 
—C. Regine album. 
DIES ORCHIDIANZ:. 
I AM sometimes favoured with curious newspaper cuttings by esteemed 
correspondents, and here is one which may be described as a fair average pro- 
duction :—*“ A blue Orchid has just been discovered. It is the very first of 
its hue, and is to be called ‘ Dendrobium Victoria Regina,’ because it is a 
Jubilee orchid.” My correspondent naturally thinks I am interested in 
Blue Orchids, and some day I fully expect to receive one, carefully labelled, 
of course. I was naturally anxious to find out something more about the 
preceding, and, in due course, learned that it was a most wonderful Den- 
drobium, both on account of its beautiful blue colour and floriferousness, and 
that it will soon bea great favourite with Orchid collectors, Now this is just 
as it should be, but reading on I found that the blossoms were rich dark blue 
and white, an inch across, and were borne in trusses of three to twelve, last- 
ing in bloom for several weeks. Lastly, I discovered that the sepals and 
petals were white, with a great blue blotch at the edges. By this time I 
naturally began to get a little mixed, and if it had only gone on to explain 
that the blue was really purple I think I should have begun to understand 
it. I fancy we shall hear of this Jubilee Orchid again. 
Of course something of the kind was to be expected, and I only hope 
