166 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
it C. cucullata. But in the autumn of 1836, in the garden of the Horti- 
cultural Society, a plant of Cycnoches produced from the opposite sides of 
the same stem two racemes; those of one raceme were the well-known 
fragrant flowers of Cycnoches Loddigesii, and of the other the scentless 
flowers of the new C. cucullata.” 
Until quite recently the cause of this peculiarity remained a, mystery, 
as we recently pointed out when speaking of C. pentadactylon, at p. 74, 
where some amusing remarks made by Lindley were cited. In the present 
instance C. cucullatum simply represents the female flower of the species, 
and it is interesting to note the difference in structure. The column, instead 
of being over two inches long, and very slender, as in the male flower, is 
less than an inch, much stouter, and with well-developed wings, but no 
pollinia. Besides being much more fleshy, the flowers are also less 
numerous, only two being borne on each of the two racemes known. 
The column of the male has been aptly compared to the neck of a swan, 
but Sir William Hooker spoke of it as resembling the head of a cobra, the 
swollen and dilated apex below the anther, aided by the colour and mark- 
ings, forming a very good representation of the inflated throat of that 
dreaded reptile. 
_ Now that the species is again in cultivation we may look for a repetition 
of the phenomenon which proved so perplexing to Lindley. 
Cycnoches Loddigesii, indi. Gen. and Sp. Orch., p. 154 ; Lodd, Bot. Cab., xx., t- 2000; 
Lindl. Bot. Reg., t. 1742; Bot. Mag., t. 3855 (var. leucochilum, Hook.), t. 4215; Aa. and 
Westc. Fl. Cab., i., p. 29, t. 15 ; Harting. Parad., p. 22, t. 36 
C. cucullatum, Lindl. Bot. Reg., xxiii., sub. t. 1951*. 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
SELENIPEDIUM X PULCHELLUM. 
A VERY beautiful but equally perplexing hybrid has been raised in the 
collection of W. Vanner, Esq., Camden Wood, Chislehurst, for which the 
above name is proposed. Mr. Vanner states that it is a seedling from 
Selenipedium x grande crossed with the pollen of S. x Sedeni candidulum. 
The seedlings germinated very quickly, and some of them flowered in less 
than two years, which is very remarkable. But stranger than all is the fact 
that they are remarkably like S. x leucorrhodum (see p. 169, fig. 11), not 
withstanding their different parentage. The influence of S. caudatum, 
coming through S. x grande, seems to have been almost lost, though it 
should be represented to the extent of 25 per cent., for Mr. Vanner states 
that there is no mistake in the parentage. Six plants have flowered, none 
of them quite alike. — be 
_. The first is very like S._x leucorrhodum, but has slightly longer 
