54 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
CYPRIPEDIUM CONCOLOR VAR. LONGIPETALUM. 
A veRY remarkable form of Cypripedium concolor has appeared in the 
collection of R. Brooman White, Esq., of Arddarroch, in which the 
petals are unusually long and narrow, being 2% inches long. The colour 
of the flower is light yellow, as in the type, and the dorsal sepal broadly 
elliptical-oblong, 1 inches long by 1} broad, the lower half being lightly - 
reticulated with light purple-brown nerves in front, and a narrow dark 
line along the centre; spotted all over with a rather lighter shade behind. 
The petals each have a narrow dark line down the centre in front, and 
a few similar small spots near the base, while behind the nerves are 
covered with rows of minute purple-brown dots. The lip is 1} inches 
long, and light yellow, with a few minute purple dots in front, and numerous 
ones on the side lobes. It is remarkably distinct in shape, but is 
evidently a variety of C. concolor, with which the foliage agrees. It 
was obtained as an imported plant about two years ago. 
R. A. R. 
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CYPRIPEDIUM x LITTLEANUM. 
WITH respect to this remarkable natural hybrid, described and figured at 
page 209 of the last volume, Mr. Hansen remarks, “ Such nat. hyb. was in 
cultivation at Sander & Co., St. Albans, in 1887, a water colouring of which 
I took at the time ” (Orch. Hyb., p- 255). Is thisidentification quite certain ? 
* If so, where is the plant now? So finea thing would hardly be lost, but 
Mr. Little’s plant being an imported one, obtained from Mr. Tracey, of 
Twickenham, precludes the possibility of the two being identical. It would 
be interesting to know the precise history of the plant alluded to, and to 
see the drawing. If Mr. Hansen knew of any record, he would have 
mentioned it, and it is desirable that the identification should be confirmed. 
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A CURIOUS CATTLEYA. 
May I be permitted to describe in your pages a curious flower of Cattleya 
labiata which has recently opened here, and which, though different from 
the two instances recorded in the December Review, may no doubt be 
accounted for in the same way. (O. R. IIL., p. 368.) The flower consists of 
six parts, made up of two sepals, two petals, and a column with two stamens. 
The back sepal and the two side petals are normal in colour, shape, and 
size, but the two side sepals and the lip are wanting, a lower sepal taking 
the place of the latter. The column is 1} inches long, perfectly straight 
and upright, in shape somewhat like a long club, and bearing at the top. 
