THE ORCHID REVIEW. 361 
PAPHIOPEDIUM CHAMBERLAINIANUM. 
THE accompanying illustration represents an interesting specimen of 
Paphiopedium or Cypripedium Chamberlainianum, from the collection of 
J. T. Bennett Poé, Esq., Holmewood, Waltham Cross. The photograph 
was taken in April, 1895, and shows three scapes, one of them bearing 
three flowers. The centre scape (tied to a stick, which must not be 
mistaken for an additional scape) has gradually gone on elongating and 
flowering down to the present time (November, 1897), and has produced 27 
flowers, while four additional buds can be detected, showing that the number 
is not yet exhausted. It has probably now reached something like its 
normal development, for among the wild inflorescences originally obtained 
Fig. 16. PAPHIOPEDIUM CHAMBERLAINIANUM. 
by Messrs. F. Sander & Co. was one showing 32 bracts. This gave rise 
to the idea that it produced long racemes of flowers, but it is now known 
that both this species and the allied P.Victoria-Mariz extend their flowering 
over a long period, the scapes gradually elongating and developing additional 
flowers. Four, however, have been expanded on one scape at the same 
time, in the collection of W. Vanner, Esq., of Chislehurst, as was recorded 
at page 161 of our third volume. And in the previous year we recorded 
(Pp. 263) a plant in the collection of C. Winn, Esq., of Birmingham, which 
continued to flower all the time a capsule was maturing on the same scape, 
