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bourne, Gloucestershire. It belongs to the section Cylindrolobus, which 
is characterised by having two or three coloured bracts at the base of the 
very short recemes. In the present species the bracts are orange-yellow in 
colour, reflexed, and about three lines long, and the flowers whitish-yellow, 
and of about the same size. The plant is about six inches high, and each 
pseudobulb bears several of its short two-flowered racemes. The species 
has been found both at Mergui, in Tenasserim, and in Sikkim. RwAyR: 
CYPRIPEDIUMS WITH IDENTICAL NAMES. 
THE beginning of the year 1896 appears a suitable time to place before 
your readers an “‘ up-to-date’ record of those Cypripediums and Seleni- 
pediums, which, though differing from each other, have received identical 
names. I propose to take them alphabetically, offering explanatory 
remarks as I proceed. 
To begin with, there are two Cypripediums named Adonis, both 
hybrids, one introduced by Messrs. B. S. Williams & Son, parentage 
C. Spicerianum ? xX C. X Harrisianum ¢ ; the other, generally known 
as Ingram’s variety, was exhibited before the Orchid Committee by C. J. 
Ingram, Esq., in September, 1893, its parents being hirsutissimum ? X 
Curtisii ¢ (O.2., I., p. 318). 
The name album was given by Aiton in 1789 to a North American 
Cypripedium, and on the 13th August, 1895, C. J. Ingram, Esq., showed a 
hybrid Selenipedium under the same name raised from S. X leucorrhodum ? 
and S. Schlimii ¢ (O. R., III., p. 287). In this case, one being a Cypri- 
pedium and the other a Selenipedium, confusion is hardly likely to arise, 
although the latter are too frequently described under the name Cypri- 
pedium. Mr. Rolfe, too, discards the name album, for the former, 
restoring the name Regine, as given by Walter a year earlier (O. R., I., 
p- 268). 
Cypripedium x Alfred Bleu was described in the Revue Horticole as 
having for parents C. ciliolare ¢ and C. insigne Chantini ¢ (O. R., L., 
p- 93), while another, C. X Alfred Bleu, with parentage C. X Crossianum 
@ x villosum ¢, appears in the Gardeners’ Chronicle (1895, i., p. 370). 
Surely, a mistake of parentage in the latter case. 
In the Orchid Review, vol. 1., p. 328, you will find C. X amabile, 
raised by M. Alfred Bleu, of Paris, from C. X javanico-superbiens ? and 
C. Hookers 3, while the Gardeners’ Chronicle (1895, i.; p. 370) records 
C. x amabile (Page) as C. Boxallii ¢ x C. X Dauthieri 3. 
C. X Bellona is a name given by R. I. Measures, Esq., to one of his 
hybrids, raised from C. villosum ? and C. Spicerianum ¢, shown in 
