THE ORCHID REVIEW. 81 
CYPRIPEDIUM x BUCHANIANUM MAGNIFICUM. 
Tuts fine hybrid was described in our last number (p. 36), and now we have 
the pleasure of figuring it, As already pointed out, it was raised from C. 
Spicerianum ? and C. Druryi 3, and thus is the reversed cross of C. x 
Buchanianum, which flowered for the first time some seven years previously. 
The general resemblance to C. Spicerianum willbe apparent at a glance, in 
every part of the flower, though the influence of the other parent is also 
apparent, particularly in the dark band of the petals, and in a decided shade 
of yellow in these and other organs. It is a decided improvement on the 
Fig. 4. CYPRIPEDIUM * BUCHANIANUM MAGNIFICUM. 
original form, and the difference may have arisen from a finer form of C. 
Spicerianum being used as a parent. One can hardly ascribe it to the 
inverted parentage. The photograph which was taken by M. Seavy, of 
Camberwell, was kindly forwarded to us by R. I. Measures, Esq., in whose 
collection the hybrid was raised. Most of the hybrids of C. Spicerianum 
follow the parental habit of flowering during the winter, when they are 
particularly useful, as, for example, C. x Leeanum, C. x Lathamianum, 
C. x nitens, C. x Niobe, and C. x Buchanianum. In short, we are 
rapidly acquiring quite a series of beautiful forms of this useful class. 
