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of crossing C. Dayanum and C. virens together, as the result would serve 
either to corroborate or to disprove the conclusions arrived at. 
Still, four or five years is a long time to await the result, and in the 
meantime I would suggest that a bloom of C. X woodlandense be sent to 
you by whoever has the pleasure of next flowering it, for inspection and report. 
This hybrid appears to have been raised by Messrs. Sander & Co., and 
is recorded in Mr. Chapman’s list of Hybrid Cypripediums (Gard. Chron., 
1895, xvii., p. 199) asC. Dayanum @ C.virens g, and inthe Orchid Hybrids 
by G. Hansen (page 183) as C. Dayanum x javanicum virens. 
REGINALD YOUNG. 
15th August, 1896. 
Ss 
STANHOPEA WARSCEWICZIANA. 
THE re-discovery of a long-lost species is always a very interesting matter, 
and it is curious what a number of Orchids are only known from a description 
published long ago, and often very imperfect, so that it is not always an easy 
matter to identify them. In the case of the above Stanhopea, which has 
now flowered in the collection of J. D. Hodgson, Esq., Newcastle-on-Tyne, 
from a plant received from Costa Rica two years ago, there was a figure 
of the original plant in existence, and I have long been anticipating its 
Te-appearance ; as also of one or two others, which will probably turn up 
again some day. The present one was originally discovered by Warscewicz 
on Mt. Chiriqui, Central America, and flowered in the nursery of Herr 
Mathieu, at Berlin, in July, 1852, and was shortly afterwards described by 
Klotzsch as S. Warscewicziana (Allg. Gartz., ey p- 274). A figure was 
afterwards given by Reichenbach (Xen. Orch., ii., p. 85, t. 125), after which 
the plant appears to have been lost sight of. This figure shows the whole 
flower of a bright deep yellow, with the exception of the column, while that 
of Mr. Hodgson’s plant is much lighter, though identical in structure, from 
which it appears that the Species is somewhat variable in this respect. S0 
many of the figures of this work, however, are so badly coloured that one 
cannot place too much reliance on the difference named. The species is 
allied to S. insignis, Frost, the hypochil being quite globose, as in that, but 
the flower is much smaller and differently coloured. The sepals and petals 
are about two inches long, very light yellow and unspotted, and the lip is 
still paler, the hypochil being very paie yellow, with a very light purple 
blotch on either side, and the rest of the lip nearly white. The pair of 
acute keels on the sides of the hypochil describe a semi-circle. The column 
is slightly over 1} inches long, and broadly winged almost to the base, the 
apical teeth being triangular and acute, The flowers have a strong aromatic 
perfume, 
RB Arie 
