268 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
now making growths for next season’s flowering. A Warm house contains 
a number of Phalznopses in vigorous health, bearing clean strong leaves 
without any trace of spot. Here also the warm-growing Cypripediums 
and a few other plants find their home. Two other houses also contain 
some good Cypripediums, some of which were in flower, and among them 
C. X gracile, a seedling from C. X Haynaldianum @ and C. X Swanianum 
3, bearing a three-flowered raceme. 
Hybrids are numerous in the collection, for Mr. Bond commenced this 
interesting work many years ago, and many fine things, more especially 
pertaining to the Cattleya group, have appeared at the meetings of the 
Royal Horticultural Society. Unflowered seedlings are numerous, and 
likely to furnish many interesting additions, as some of the crosses 
effected are very promising, and these we shall doubtless here of in due 
season. 
DENDROBIUM WARDIANUM AS A SEED PARENT. 
THE following note, written as long ago as 1889 by Mr. R. B. White 
(Gard. Chron., 1889, v., p. 438), is interesting in connection with the recent 
discussion on the subject:—‘I have only once succeeded in getting a 
seed-pod on Dendrobium Wardianum, and in this case it got accidentally 
broken off. This species seems to me more difficult to fertilise than any Of 
the others. What is the reason of this? It must be easily propagated in 
its native habitat, on account of its abundance, and we are very nearly 
enabled to imitate its climatic conditions.” 
MONANDROUS CYPRIPEDES. 
ANOMALOUS flowers of Phragmipedilum Xx Sedeni frequently make their 
appearance, with one of the petals assuming the position of the upper 
sepal, and with the staminode and second petal apparently wanting. Such 
flowers at first sight seem to be entirely without petals, the labellum alone 
remaining of the inner circle of perianth organs. Closer observation 
reveals the rather startling fact that such flowers are monandrous, the third, 
and normally infertile, stamen (the staminode) alone being present and 
fertile. Transverse sections of the ovary show that the usual number of 
three cells is no longer constant, there being but two. 
So far as I am able to ascertain, the above anomalous condition 
is rare in Paphiopedilum. In July, 1899, I found a specimen of P 
barbatum which showed the following peculiarities, and is an interesting 
subject for comparison with the anomalous flowers already described above: 
