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PAPHIOPEDILUM APPLETONIANUM & P. BULLENIANUM. 
Two closely allied species are 1a gm in the annexed illustration, 
namely the Siamese Paphiop A and the Bornean P. 
Bullenianum, and their characters and distribution form a very interesting 
if puzzling problem. We may consider them in the order of their 
appearance. 
P. BULLENIANUM (fig. 3) was originally introduced from Borneo, by 
Messrs. Hugh Low and Co., and was described by Reichenbach in 1865, 
under the name of Cypripedium Bullenianum, in honour of Mr. Bullen, 
Fig. 2. P. APPLETONIANUM. Fig. 3. P. BULLENIANUM. 
then foreman at Upper Clapton. Mr. Day, who made a painting in 
February, 1865 (Coll. Draw., ix., t. 35), added the information that it was 
imported with C. Hookere, and afterwards he remarked that he saw a 
hundred flowers at Messrs. Low’s in February, 1867, adding :—‘ Mr. 
Builen is indignant at his name being given to so unattractive a species.” 
A second painting was made in December, 1883 (/.c., xxxix, t. 89), Mr. 
Day then remarking :—“ From a plant of my own, which I bought of 
Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., for C. Hooker. They both came from the 
