214 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
DUPLICATION OF NAMES. 
Messrs. F. Sander & Co. write calling attention to a remark in our 
Review of their Orchid Guide (page 190). The remark is :—‘‘ We note that 
the hybrid between Cypripedium barbatum and bellatulum appears under 
six different names, and the record C. caudatum. x leucorrhodum Miss H. 
A. Roebling, and in the very next line Mrs. W. A. Roebling, is a type of a 
kind of duplication that might have been avoided with advantage.”’ Messrs. 
Sander observe that the duplication referred to was purposely included, and 
that practically all the hybrids mentioned in the Guide have been recorded 
in different gardening organs. The Mrs. W. A. Roebling is undoubtedly a 
misprint, but should the name be given without the parents how is any 
reader to know that it is a synonym. The same with the bellatulum crosses, 
no doubt ail should be reduced to synonyms or varieties of C. x Charles. 
Richman, but we could not well assume the right to do so.””. Our remarks 
were of course made simply in defence of a principle the validity of which 
Messrs. Sander admit, namely that hybrids between the same two species 
should be considered as forms of one. That it was not carried out in this 
case was pointed out as a matter for regret, simply because the same 
prominence is given to every recorded synonym as to the original name, 
and there is nothing to show which of them is the original name, a matter 
which in the absence of references the reader can scarcely carry out for him- 
self. The bellatulum crosses mentioned have already been reduced, and the 
other case we have not been able to look up. 
ORCHIDS IN “ PEPPER-GARDENS.” 
OrcHID Houses in India are very unlike those with which we are familiar 
in Europe. Speaking of the time when Dr. (now Sir George) King, took 
charge of the Calcutta Botanic Garden, in 1864, the Gardener’; Chronicle 
remarks :—‘‘ A few Orchids only (among them, however, some very fine 
ones, as Vanda teres and V. Roxburghii) will grow in the open at Calcutta ; 
but John Scott had found that many more would flourish in a Pépper- 
garden built in the native way, with an open roof of bamboo strips, which 
broke the direct force of the sun’s rays, and kept the interior in a steaming 
heat. King developed these Pepper-Gardens ; he built them in general form 
_ Tesembling English greenhouses, the roofs of wire. In these many species 
of Orchids flourished, and, by degrees, a great variety of fine plants from the 
mountain jungles were added, till the Pepper-Gardens have become a 
principle feature of the Calcutta Garden.” 
