132 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
DIES ORCHIDIANA., 
AN esteemed correspondent sends me two cuttings from a recently issued 
catalogue, and thinks them interesting enough for further comment. The 
first is as follows :— 
“Cypripedium hirsutissimum x Lowii, a magnificent specimen of this 
fine hybrid, in 14-inch pot, with forty growths and eight or nine flower 
sheaths, in splendid health and condition. Fifteen guineas.” 
Commenting on this, my correspondent remarks that “‘ no such cross, so 
far as he is aware, has yet been recorded, and the raiser must indeed have 
been hiding his light under a bushel for many years to have let the plant 
attain to such a size.” I think we must have more particulars about it. 
The second cutting is :— 
“Cypripedium Niobe X Fairrieanum, an entirely new and rare hybrid 
which has just flowered. The flower is of magnificent form and colour. 
Painting may be seen of same; a very fine plant, one grand growth. 
Thirty-five guineas.” 
This, my correspondent thinks, should be read together with a note at 
page 27 of the present volume, to the effect that a plant was exhibited at 
Manchester as Cypripedium Fairrieanum, which the Orchid Committee 
declined to adjudicate upon, being unanimously of the opinion that it was 
incorrectly named. This is a point which I cannot decide, not having seen 
the plant in question, but the species is so distinct from all others, and 
from all its hybrids, that no one who has once seen it could mistake 
anything else for it. As to the hybrid, if it is really what it professes to be, 
it is a very remarkable plant; a secondary hybrid composed of three parts 
Fairrieanum and one part Spicerianum, and ought to resemble the former 
much sought for plant more nearly than anything which has yet appeared. 
Has anyone seen the painting? Or, better still, the flower itself? If the 
story is correct the raiser is to be congratulated; if not—well, I would 
rather not say until the facts are proved. 
At page 70, I alluded to some recent cases of plurality of names for 
the same thing, and here are a few examples of the names given to 
hybrids of Paphiopedilum Chamberlainianum. The hybrid between it and 
P. Spicerianum was described and figured as P. x Deedmanianum (0. &., 
vi, p. 49); Cypripedium x scitulum (Chron. Orch., p. 158); and C. X 
Spicero-Chamberlainianum (Le Jard., Feb. 5, 1899, p. 39). With P. 
villosum it yielded Cypripedium x Mansellii (Charlesw. Cat., Oct. 1898) 
C. X villoso-Chamberlainianum (Chron. Orch., p. 159) ; and Paphiopedilum 
X Madiotianum (0, R., vii, p. 47). -With P. x Leeanum the records give: 
