APRIL, Igft.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
PAPHIOPEDILUM AUREUM SURPRISE. 
eautiful 
THE annexed figure representsa plant of the interesting and 
Paphiopedilum aureum var. Surprise, with six flowers, from the collection 
of W. P. Burkinshaw, Esq., Hessle, Huil, gardener Mr. J. T. Barker. It 
forms a charming picture, and Mr. Barker, in sending the phot graph, 
remarks that he believes it to be one of the best plants in cultivation. 
It is one of the remarkable batch of seedlings raised by M. Jules Hye, 
Ghent, from P. Spicerianum and 
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P. Sallieri Hyeanum, and has clear 
greenish yellow flowers with tl half of the dorsal sepal white. 
the most remarkable 
Other seedlings from the same batch showed 
markings, and a large 
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diversity in colour and 
originally exhibited und inct names, though were afterwards 
der distinct 
considered as varieties of one. In fact, nearly forty synony1 
are enumerated inthe Orchid Stud Bi 
istinct forms are figured 
by M. Goossens in the Dictionnaire bhique des Orchidées, the present 
one among the number. 
number of them were 
ns of P. aureum 
