THE ORCHID REVIEW. 49 
PAPHIOPEDIUM ~x DEEDMANIANUM. 
THIs is a very interesting cross between P. Spicerianum and P. Chamber- 
lainianum, the latter being the pollen parent. It was raised about five 
years ago by Mr. W. B. Latham, the able Curator of the Edgbaston 
Botanical Gardens near Birmingham, and has been grown on by his 
foreman, Mr. Deedman, whence the name which has been given to it. 
The dorsal sepal is larger than that of average forms of P. Spicerianum, 
creamy white with pale green at its base, a purple streak up the centre, 
with shorter lines of the same colour running half way up, the intermediate 
Fic. 2. PAPHIOPEDIUM X DEEDMANIANUM. 
spaces dappled with reddish brown spots. The petals are longer than 
those of either parent, and are of a delicate green tint, lined and spotted 
with the same colour as the dorsal sepal, twisted and undulated along 
the edges with marginal tufts of dark hairs smaller than those of P. 
Chamberlainianum. The labellum resembles that of P. Chamberlainianum, 
but is larger and of a brighter and more rosy colour. The staminode is 
reddish brown. In foliage, habit, and freedom of growth, the plant 
resembles P. Chamberlainianum, but it is more robust and the flowers 
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