228 ¢ THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
CyPRIPEDIUM X H R 
A VERY pretty Cypripedium was exhibited at the Royal Horticultural 
Society’s meeting on July 28th, from the collection of W. C. Clarke, Esq., 
Sefton Park, Liverpool, under the above name, which is said to have been 
raised by Mr. Ashton, of the firm of W. L. Lewis & Co., from C. 
Harrisianum superbum ¢ and C. Sanderianum gd, and well combines the 
characters of the two parents. The leaves are marbled much as in the 
seed parent, and the scape bears three flowers, most like C. Sanderianum 
in shape, but the curved petals broader and about five inches long, and the 
colour much modified by the influence of the other parent. The dorsal 
sepal is lined with purple-brown on a greenish ground; the petals 
spotted with similar colours; the lip bright vinous purple; and the 
staminode concave, bilobed, and hairy at the sides. 
MASDEVALLIA X AJAX. 
This is a very pretty hybrid, raised in the establishment of Messrs. 
James Veitch & Sons, from Masdevallia x Chelsoni ? and M. peristeria ¢, 
to which an Award of Merit was given at the Royal Horticultural Society's | 
meeting on July 28th. The plant most resembles M. peristeria in shape, : 
but the scapes are longer, and the flower is fairly intermediate in character. ; 
The perianth is very densely spotted with reddish brown on a bright | 
yellowish ground, and the numerous short hairs present show some of that 
violet iridescence seen in M. x Chelsoni, and which were derived from 
M. Veitchiana in the first place. The tails are very dark, and the lateral 
ones cross each other. Thus the general effect is that of M. x Chelsoni, 
modified in shape and darker in colour, on account of the innumerable 
little dots derived from M. peristeria. It is a very interesting addition to 
the group. 
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CYCNOCHES MACULATUM. 
It is interesting to record that this fine species has again appeared . 
cultivation, having been imported by Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., this seasoMs 
as a unique specimen from Venezuela, and flowered in their establishment 
It has now passed into the collection of the Hon. Walter Rothschild, at 
Tring Park. The species was originally described by Dr. Lindley in “ i 
(Bot. Reg., xxvi., Misc., p. 10) from a plant’ which flowered in the collection 
of Mr. Barker, of Birmingham, in November, 1839. Its habitat was not 
then recorded. Immediately afterwards a figure was published in Maundls 
Botanist (IV., t. 156), from a plant which flowered in the collection of 
John Wilmore, Esq., of Oldford, Staffordshire, a month later. This plas 
