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should have recognised this name, and awarded a First-class Certificate, 
when they changed the name of another plant of identical parentage from 
C. X Météore to C. x Charles Richman before granting a similar award ?” 
I am unable to answer this very pertinent question, but it is satisfactory to 
note that others beside Argus have their eyes on this question. 
Last month I called attention to some remarks of a correspondent of 
the Garden, commending the principle of considering all hybrids from the 
same two species as forms of one, and now the Gardeners’ Magazine also 
endorses the same idea, remarking that it is a great pity that this system is 
not generally followed in naming hybrid Orchids, instead of the many con- 
fusing names given to the numerous seedlings produced from identical 
parentage. And, by way of illustration, it alludes to Cypripedium x 
Charles Richman, raised from C. barbatum and C. bellatulum, as having 
been before the Orchid Committee on four different occasions, each time 
under different names. The Orchid Review has adopted this view from the 
outset, and with such a growing concensus of opinion in its favour, some 
improvement must inevitably result. 
CYPRIPEDIUMS WITH IDENTICAL NAMES. 
(Continued from page 14.) 
The name Juno occurs first as a species from the Philippine Islands 
(R. H. Measures’ List, May, 1890), and again as a hybrid from C. Fairie- 
anum ¢ and C. callosum ¢ ), according to the Royal Horticultural Society’s 
List of Plants Certificated, but the reverse cross as given in the Orchid 
Review (I., p. 327). 
The name Kimballianum also appears both as a species and as a hybrid. 
As a species it should be written C. prestans Kimballianum, but the prefix 
is too frequently omitted. The hybrid is C. x Kimballianum, in all 
probability derived from C. Rothschildianum ¢ and C. Dayanum ¢ 
(O.°R., ITT} p27). 
W. R. Lee, Esq., showed C. X Leo at the Drill Hall, 16th January, 
1894 (Gard. Chron:, 1894, i., p. 84), the parentage being doubtful, but 
believed to be a cross between C. Spicerianum and C. villosum, while in a 
Catalogue of Messrs. Protheroe & Morris, 24th September, 1895, C. xX Leo 
is offered, with parentage C. x Wallaertianum ? X insigne Chantini 3. 
Messrs. Sander used the name C. X Macfarlanei for their hybrid 
derived from C. Xx calophyllum ¢ and C. Spicerianum 3 (O. R., L., p- 
326), and Messrs. W. L. Lewis & Co. named the cross from C. Lowii 2? 
and C. I gC. X Macfarl but seeing the probability 
of confusion by its similarity to the first-named, they promptly changed the . 
