THE ORCHID REVIEW. 7 
CYPRIPEDIUM x NIOBE. 
THE subject of our first figure is a very charming little hybrid, raised in 
the collection of Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, of Chelsea, by Mr. Seden. 
It flowered for the first time in December, 1889, on which occasion it 
received a First-class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society. It 
was obtained by crossing C. Spicerianum with the pollen of C. Fairieanum ; 
Fig. I. CYPRIPEDIUM X NIOBE. 
the seed was sown in 1884, and five years later the first flower appeared. 
Seedlings were subsequently raised in the collection of Howard Gaskell, 
Esq., Woolton Wood, near Liverpool, of which the parentage was lost, but 
as they have proved identical with those raised by Mr. Seden there can 
be no doubt they were obtained from the same cross. The characters of 
the two parent species are well combined in the offspring. The dorsal 
sepal has much of the shape and colour of C. Spicerianum, but veined and 
reticulated as in C. Fairieanum, though of a much lighter shade. The 
petals and lip show rather more of the character of the pollen parent, while 
