Sai THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
CYPRIPEDIUM X MULUS. 
THIs is a noble and handsome hybrid, which might be described in 
words as an enlarged Cypripedium x porphyrochlamys of a lighter sl 
One parent is, indeed, the same—namely, C. hirsutissimum—but in 
present instance it was used as the seed parent, not the pollen p: 
The pollen in this case was derived from C. Lawrenceanum, and as this sp 
is allied to C. barbatum, the seed parent of C. x porphyrochlamys, 
similarities and differences of the two hybrids are easily explained. In! 
mulus, the dorsal sepal is two and a quarter inches long by over two 
suffused with light purple on a pale ground, the nerves olive-green | 
darker spots near the base, but inclining to purple near the margin, W 
itself is white. The petals are over three inches long by three-quarter 
an inch broad, undulate, half-twisted near apex, and very ciliate, the 
part green, passing into light mauve-purple above, and with many blackis! 
brown shining dots. The lip is nearly two inches long, and suffuse 
light purple. The staminode is reniform and tridentate, light 
purple, with light yellow-green nerves. 
CYPRIPEDIUM xX WATSONIANUM. 
This is a bold and handsome hybrid, raised in the collection of M 
F. Sander and Co., of St. Albans, between Cypripedium x Harris 
nigrum $ and C. concolor 3, between which it is fairly intermedia 
character. Both the dorsal sepal and petals are remarkably flat. 
former is broadly ovate, nearly two inches wide, suffused with rosy 
veined with green in the centre and purple at the sides, the apical 
being nearly white. The petals are light rosy purple, with a dark 
nerve, and many suffused purple-brown spots forming a blotch near the 
on the upper half, the extreme base being light green. In shape 
elliptical-oblong, and two inches long. The lip is rather small and 
in colour almost wholly deep maroon-purple; and the staminode 
semi-circular, with a tricuspidate apex, the colour light rosy-purPp 
green reticulations in the centre and a deep maroon tip. It has the¢ 
habit and Shape so characteristic of the hybrids derived from Ci cc 
but in colour it approaches much nearer to the other parent. — 
dedicated, by request, to Mr. W. Watson, Assistant Curator of the } 
Gardens, Kew. 
SELENIPEDIUM x AINSWORTHII VAR. DELICATUM. 
A very beautiful hybrid has been raised by Captain Hincks, of 
House, Richmond, Yorks, between Selenipedium longifolium vat- 
