288 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
CYPRIPEDIUM x SIAMENSE. 
ANOTHER stage has now been reached in the endeavour to prove the 
parentage of this natural hybrid, as suggested on page 18 of the fourth 
volume of the Orchid Review. At page 39 of the same volume it is stated 
that I, having both Cypripedium callosum and C. Appletonianum in flower 
at the time the suggestion came under my notice, at once made the experi- 
ment, of crossing the two species together. 
The date of hybridising was January 15th, 1896, two flowers of C. 
Poyntzianum (identical with C. Appletonianum, O. R., IV., p. 18) being 
crossed with the pollen of C. callosum. On the 16th December, 1896, the 
pods were ripe, and the seed sown on a pot of C. X Harrisianum. Now, 
August 7th, 1897, my gardener, Mr. Poyntz, has shown me quite a crop of 
seedlings, so that in due time Mr. Rolfe’s views stand a very fair chance of 
being verified. 
REGINALD YOUNG. 
Sefton Park, 
Liverpool. 
ORCHID PORTRAITS. 
CYNORCHIS PURPURASCENS, Thou.—Bot. Mag., t. 7551. 
DENDROBIUM DENUDANS, D. Don.—Bot. Mag., t. 7548 (7549 on plate, 
by error). 
DENDROBIUM VicToRIA-REGIN2&, Loher.—Gard. Chron., Aug. 21, 
p- 121, fig. 34. 
EPILHLIA X RADICO-PURPURATA.—Gard. Chron., Aug. 7, p. 83, fig. 23. 
GRAMMATOPHYLLUM SPECIOsUM, Blume.—Gard. Chron., Aug. 28, pp. 
145-147, fig. 41, 42. 
SOBRALIA X VEITCHI.—Journ. of Hort.,, Aug. 12, pp. 148, 149, fig. 21. 
CORRESPONDENCE, &c, 
W. S.B, Dorking. Probably a light form of Sobralia xantholeuca. 
E. A., Wilmslow. Pholidota imbricata, an East Indian Orchid, presumably originally 
introduced with some plant from that country, although found with Cattleya. 
Y., Liverpool. Many thanks for the list, which contains some interesting and 
useful facts. 
Photographs received, with thanks. R. E. » De B. C., T.. fb. P., and F. S. & Co. 
Mrs. B., N. Devon. A fine form of Cauldys Warscewiczii, with a large and very 
brilliantly ehlsered lip. The percentage of natural hybrids in such an importation is 
almost invariably small. 
N. E. H., Devon. We should like to see the inflorescence (not the een Such cases 
occasionally occur, but may not be constant. Time alone can prove this 
