APRIL, 1906.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. £03 
anum, Ang Sanderi , the brilliant R h I h 
Saccolabium giganteum, and a pretty new species with rose-coloured 
flowers, S. rubescens, Rolfe. 
The Cool House is gay with numerous species of Odontoglossum. O. 
longipipes bears a spike from three to four feet in length, with numerous 
small yellow flowers. O. Edwardii is carrying a spike quite five feet long, 
crowded with its beautiful violet-purple flowers. There are also several 
plants of O. crispum, gloriosum, ieee and triumphans; O. mirandum, 
Uroskinneri, 1 E i Hallii, sceptrum, macu- 
latum, (Erstedii, Calvenieail pulchellum, and the very rare little O. 
stellatum, with the hybrids O. X Andersonianum, X Coradinei, X 
Adriane, and X Harryano-triumphans. Among the Masdevallias are a 
well-flowered plant of M. x Pourbaixii, M. O’Brieniana, M. bella, and M. x 
Hincksiana, together with several others which were mentioned last month. 
Other plants are the pretty little Physosiphon Moorei, Polystachya 
pubescens, and the violet blue D. Victoria-Regina, hailing from the Philip- 
pines. Cymbidium grandiflorum is bearing a good spike, and the flowers 
are opening perfectly in this cool situation, while near by is C. pumilum, a 
native of Japan, species of Stelis, and other rare botanical Orchids. 
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PAPHIOPEDILUM HIRSUTISSIMUM. 
A curious fact has just come to light respecting this beautiful species, 
which carries its history back for about a couple of years, and, curiously 
enough, it has come out through the rediscovery of the allied P. Fairrie- 
anum. ’ 
Messrs. Veitch summarise the history of the species as follows 
(Man. Orch., iv., p. 29):—‘ ipedium hirsutissi and C. F. 
two of the most cue Indian Cypripedes, wete introduced to British 
gardens about the year 1857, but nothing whatever was then known of their 
origin further than that they had been sent to England by a collector named 
Simons. The precise station . . . of C. hirsutissimum remained un- 
known till 1868-69, about which time the late Mr. John Day received a few 
plants from his nephew Captain Williamson, who had gathered them on 
the Assam side of the Khasia Hills, whence it has.since been received by 
horticultural firms.” 
On looking up the records, in connection with the new fact above 
alluded to, I find that the species was named by Lindley, and originally 
figured and described in the Botanical Magazine (t. 4990), in June, 1857. 
Its history is thus given :—‘‘A native of Java, we believe, and communi- 
cated to us by Mr. Parker, of Hornsey, who purchased it at a sale of East 
Indian plants. 
