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May, 1911.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 137 
PAPHIOPEDILUM SUTTONI4E AND ITS PARENTS. 
‘Our present illustration represents the very charming hybrid Paphiopedilum 
_ Suttoniz (fig. 15), together with its two parents, P. niveum (fig. 16), and 
P. Chamberlainianum (fig. 17). They are from plants which flowered at 
Kew a few weeks ago, and are reproduced from an excellent ‘photograph 
taken by Mr. C. P. Raffill. They are, of course, much reduced in size. 
The hybrid combines the characters of its parents in a very interesting way, 
being most like P. Chamberlainianum in habit, while the flower has more of 
the niveum character, the dorsal sepal and petals being rather broad, and 
beautifully lined and reticulated with purple on a white ground. This 
hybrid appeared for the first time in January, 1902, when it was exhibited 
at a meeting of the R.H.S., by A. Sutton, Esq., Bucklebury, Woolhampton, 
Fig. 15. PAPHIOPEDILUM SUTTONIA. 
Fig. 16. P, NIVEUM. Fig. 17. P. CHAMBERLAINIANUM. 
under the paine of Cypripedium Mrs. A. W. Sutton (O. R., x. p. 51), and 
six weeks later it was shown by Messrs. Charlesworth & Co. as C. Godiva 
(l.c., p. 118). As the original spécific name was not in accordance with the ~ 
-rules then in force we changed its form, the object being to retain the original 
idea while making it also conformable to rule (Orchid Stud-Book, p. 209), 
-and thus the name now stands as Paphiopedilum Suttoniz. What its 
-correct name is under the new rules is a rather nice question, for the original 
name is still not admissible, which affords sufficient justification for the 
name here adopted. We do not think that the hybrid has been eerrionsly 
figured. Tae 
