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avery fine C. niveum; also Selenipedium x Brownii and S. x Mrs. W. A. 
Roebling. 
Among miscellaneous Orchids may be mentioned two fine specimens of 
Oncidium sphacelatum, Odontoglossum citrosmum album and roseum, 
Epidendrum X O’Brienianum, and Lycaste Skinneri. 
I may as well mention that the celebrated specimen of Cattleya Mendelii 
Quorn House variety can be found in this collection, showing eight fine 
flower sheaths. 
J. A. Manpa, JUN. 
S. Orange, N.J. 
CYPRIPEDIUM x NANDII. 
I frequently observe confusion as to the seed and pollen parents of 
various Orchids in notes concerning them in the different, papers, which is 
rather unfortunate. In a description of Cypripedium X Nandii, which 
appeared in the Gardeners’ Magazine of July 6th, 1895, the following passage 
occurs :—‘‘ The beautiful Cypripedium Nandii, of which I send you a 
photograph, is a secondary hybrid raised from a cross between C. callosum 
and C. x Tautzianum, the last-named of the two parents having been 
raised from C. barbatum, fertilised with the pollen of C. niveum. In C, 
Nandii there are traces of the three species that have been instrumental in 
its production. In the habit, the markings of the foliage, and in the flowers 
C. niveum greatly predominates, which is all the more remarkable consider- 
ing that it was only the pollen parent of C. x Tautzianum.’’ Curiously 
enough, the writer of these remarks, in his list of hybrid Cypripediums 
published in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, gives C. niveum as the seed parent, and 
this, I believe, is correct, for according to the list of “ Orchids Certified by 
the Royal Horticultural Society, 1859 to 1893,” it received a First-class 
Certificate on Jan. 10th, 1887, as C. niveum 2 X C. barbatumg. C. niveum 
is given as the seed parent in the Manual of Orchidaceous Plants, published 
by Messrs. Veitch & Sons; andas C. X Tautzianum was raised by Mr. 
Seden in their establishment, this parentage should be reliable. See also the 
Orchid Review, vol. I., p. 132, where the symbols ¢ and 3 are used, and so 
prevent the possibility of mistake. 
REGINALD YOUNG. 
[We believe that the records are correct, and that C. niveum was the seed 
parent of C. x Tautzianum. It was probably a slip of the memory on Mr. 
Chapman’s part to call it the pollen parent, though of course it is none the 
less confusing. But there are many other cases where the records are con- 
tradictory, and in some cases it is impossible to correct them with any 
degree of certainty, which is unfortunate.—Eb.] + 
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