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has also flowered in the collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, 
Dorking. It belongs to Lindley’s second section of the genus, 
characterised by having flowers in a flexuose raceme, with distant 
cymbiform or. boat-shaped bracts, and is allied to S. rosea, Poepp. and 
Endl., and S. Liliastrum, Lindl. There are some half-dozen other species 
in the group, but they are chiefly, if not altogether, known from dried 
specimens. The habitat is not recorded, but undetermined specimens 
collected in Ecuador by Spruce, in 1858, appear to be identical. | Spruce’s 
ticket states ‘‘ Caules 6-7 pedales, foliosi, corolla pallide rosea, labio roseo- 
purpureo picto. Montana de Canelos, in saxosis, secus fl. Verde, April, 1858; 
n. 5379.” Although collected so long ago, these dried specimens still 
show the broad red-purple radiating lines on the front of the lip which 
constitute such a feature of the garden plant. Of course it does not 
follow that the latter came from the same exact locality, but as the two are 
also identical in habit, I have no doubt that both belong to the same 
species. The flowers measure over three inches long, and last several days, 
as one which expanded on November 16th was only partially faded a 
week later. 
R. A. Roire. 
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CYPRIPEDIUMS OF DOUBTFUL PARENTAGE, 
We have received a series of seven hybrid Cypripediums from the collection 
of O. O. Wrigley, Esq., Bridge Hall, Bury, which were purchased as very 
small plants without any record of parentage, and have now reached the 
flowering stage. A flower and leaf is sent in each case, and the question is 
from what parents they have sprung. No. x is a light form of C. X 
Leeanum; 2, 4 and 5 are forms of C. x Pageanum, the characters of 
C. Hookere and C. bi being istakably present; 3 and 7 are 
forms of C. X Atys, derived from C. venustum and C. Hookere ; and 7, we 
believe, owes its origin to a cross between C. barbatum and C. X 
Harrisianum, and is thus a form of C. x Ensign. The leaf is most like 
C. barbatum, as might be expected from the fact that it has three-fourths 
blood of that species, and the flower is about intermediate between the two 
parents. We hope that these seedlings of unrecorded parentage will 
not become too numerous. Tracing their descent may be a very good form 
of mental athletics, but as we hear of seedlings progressing towards the 
flowering stage in which no less than five species are represented, we advise 
readers to take care of the records, if they wish to know their descent. 
Signs are not wanting of the gradual evolution of a race of highly orna- 
mental florists’ flowers, and it will be interesting in future to trace the steps 
by which they originated, 
