THE ORCHID REVIEW. 361 
COMPLEX CYPRIPEDIUM HYBRIDS. 
Two or three correspondents are studying inheritance in regard to 
hybrid Orchids, and the following list, which has been sent to us as a 
contribution to the question, will probably interest our readers... Some 
curious facts with regard to hybridisation among Orchids are gradually 
coming to light, and it is an interesting matter to have them recorded in 
accessible form. 
It is curious to note that the first nine names on the list are all derived 
from combinations of C. barbatum, insigne, villosum, and Spicerianum, 
which have been arrived at in four different ways, namely :—C. X Leeanum 
¢ xX C. X cenanthum ¢,C. X Harrisianum @ X C. X Leeanum ¢, 
C. Spicerianum ¢ X C. X cnanthum ¢, and the last cross reversed. 
In the two next on the list C. Spicerianum is replaced by C. venustum, 
and the combinations were effected by the crosses, respectively :—C. 
x calophyllum ¢ xX C. X cenanthum ¢, and C. X Crossianum ? X 
C. X Harrisianum 3. In the next two bracketed together, C. venustum 
was replaced by C. Argus, and the hybrids were obtained by such 
apparently different crosses as C. X cenanthum @ X C. Argus ¢, and C. 
Ashburtonie ¢ XxX C. X vernixium g. The exact parentage of the 
remaining crosses may be found by the help of the references. No less than 
fourteen of the hybrids here enumerated have had C. X oenanthum for 
one parent, which is partly explained by the fact that three species are 
included in its composition.—Ep. 
List oF CypRIPEDIUM HyBRIDS IN EACH OF WHICH FOUR DISTINCT 
SPECIES ARE REPRESENTED. 
barb. insign. vil. Spic. 
Cex Pigato 7... sae (GG T8BO) Wiss DaysO).-- ee ee 
C. x Tityus _... ga), (Cap TOORs Male, Davee pee cei sags l98 29s 
C. X memoria-Moensii ... (Lind., viii., t. 361) Pee aS es eat 
C. X ceno-Spicerianum ... (G.C., 1895, Xvii., p. 200) 5. 5) ys 
C. X Charles Reffold .... (J.R.H.S., xv., p. Cxcvi.) saan TD | Sapien 
Cc. X Brunianum EPG CG 10925, Sil DotA 9) oh go eae 
C. x A.J. Herrington ... (G.C., 1895, xviii, p. ret TE EE eae | 
C. x Harri-Leeanum ... (O.R., i., p- 375) a ete Oar 
C. X Clement Moore... (Gard., 1895, xlviii., p- 48) gga, RS aah 
5 venust. 
C. x Pollettianum ... (G.C., 1890, viii., p. 702.) @ + 4 7 
C. X Boyleanum .. (R.H. Meas. Cyp.,ed.2.,p-17) } 5 4 = 
TZus. 
C. x Lowryanum ... (Hansen, p. 159) we 4 ss 
C. X Madame Josci Des- 
combes ... i 1GGy 1805, XV, p- 200) & 3, bt 
