THE ORCHID REVIEW. 169 
SELENIPEDIUM x LEUCORRHODUM. 
Tuis delicately-coloured and beautiful hybrid was raised by Mr. Seden, in 
the collection of Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, of Chelsea, and flowered 
for the first time in 1885. It was raised from S. Roezlii crossed with the 
pollen of Schlimii albiflorum, and shows the usual combination of the 
characters of its two parents. In its vigorous habit it shows the influence 
of S. Roezlii, also’ in the attenuation of the petals, and the strong suffusion 
of rosy purple near their apex and along the margins, as well as in the shape 
of the staminode, the purple hairs along its basal margin, and in the 
modified shape of the flower generally. But in the sepals and lip, and in 
the general colour of the flower, the pollen parent has exerted a decidedly 
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Fig. 11. SELENIPEDIUM X LEUCORRHODUM. 
Preponderating influence. The general colour is blush white, with a suffusion 
of delicate pink on the upper sepal, and of a deeper shade at the apex and 
Margins of the petals. The lip is light rose-pink, suffused with white, the 
infolded side lobes ivory-white, and the staminode of the latter colour fringed 
with purple hairs at the back. The photograph here reproduced is tes 
a flower kindly sent by Baron Sir Henry Schroder, of es Dell, Egham: 
Selenipedi : . D., p. 148. 
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Orth. iv. p. 104, 7 Oe ae, 
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