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PAPHIOPEDILUM APPLETONIANUM. 
In 1895 a plant which had flowered with M. Paul Wolter, at Magdeburg, 
was described under the name of Cypripedium Wolterianum (Kranzl, in 
Gard. Chron., 1895, xvii., p. 166), the author remarking: ‘‘It is perhaps a 
natural hybrid between C. Lowii and another parent unknown to us. The 
staminode, however, shows such a peculiar feature, and is so dissimilar to 
this organ in other Cypripediums, that we must consider the plant for the 
moment as a true species. The habitat is to be kept secret for the present, 
but I can assert that it is not the native country of C. Lowii. For myself, 
I was struck with the information given to me by the importer. The 
Fic. 19.—PAPHIOPEDILUM X SIAMENSE. Fic. 21.—P. APPLETONIANUM. 
; Fic. 20.—P. CALLOSUM. 
flowers have all the grace of those of C. Lowii, and are of about the same 
size. I may add that the specimen which flowered at Magdeburg, in Mr. 
P. Wolter’s collection, was a very poor one, yet its flowers were in size and 
beauty equal to those of a normal C. Lowii. It is to be hoped that the 
flower will increase in beauty when the plant has acquired more strength.” 
What it could be was naturally a puzzle, and when subsequently a plant 
was figured (Xen. Orch., iii., p. 142, t. 282), showing all the characters of 
the one already known as C. Appletonianum, the value of the above 
remarks was apparent. And the history of the plant can now be completed. 
