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PAPHIOPEDILUM x PRINCESS. 
THE annexed figure represents another pretty and delicately-coloured 
Fairrieanum hybrid, namely P. x Princess, whose history was given at 
page 43 of our last volume. It is reproduced from a painting, by 
Macfarlane, of a flower from the collection of Francis Wellesley, Esq., 
Westfield, Woking. The plant bloomed in August last, and was exhibited 
at a meeting of the R.H.S. (O.R. xiii. p. 277). It was raised by M. Opoix, 
Fic. 13. PAPHIOPEDILUM X PRINCESS. 
from P. X Mons. Coffinet crossed with the pollen of P. Fairrieanum, and 
thus is of rather complex ancestry, an analysis showing half Fairrieanum, 
a quarter Dayanum, and one eighth each barbatum and_ superbiens. 
Perhaps the most striking resemblances in the flower are the ciliz of the 
petals, recalling P. Dayanum, and the curved petals and somewhat 
reticulated veining of the dorsal sepal, recalling Fairrieanum. The rich 
colour of P. barbatum is wanting, and there is only a trace of the spotted 
