112 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
A form from the collection of H. J. Elwes, Esq., Colesborne, Gloucester- 
shire, is remarkable for possessing a deep yellow stripe along the centre of 
the lateral sepals, as in the variety VANNERIANA. This looks like a freak, 
and it will be interesting to see if it proves constant. 
Two light forms come from the collection of E. F. Clark, Esq., 
of Teignmouth, one of them very good, but the other apparently 
undeveloped. 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
PAPHIOPEDIUM X APPLETONI#. 
Tus is a large and handsome hybrid, raised in the collection of W. M. 
Appleton, Esq., of Weston-super-Mare, between P. X Harrisianum ? 
and P. ciliolare g¢. It is most like the former in general character, but 
is modified in shape, and the influence of the pollen parent is very 
obvious in the strongly ciliate petals. The dorsal sepal is very broadly 
ovate, somewhat reflexed at the sides, and the colour reddish-purple, with 
blackish-purple nerves, and a narrow white margin. The upper halves of 
the petals are shining purple-brown, with a few small blackish warts 
along the margin, and the lower halves greenish, both having darker 
veins, and some small small spots at the base, while the apex shades off 
into light reddish-purple. The lip is deep purple-brown in front, and the 
staminode approaches the seed parent in shape. It is a flower of 
excellent shape and texture, very deep and rich in colour, and is likely to 
prove a decided acquisition to the genus. 
PAPHIOPEDIUM X WESTONIENSE. 
A particularly interesting little hybrid raised in the collection of W. M. 
Appleton, Esq., of Weston-super-Mare, from P. Appletonianum ¢? and P. 
barbatum Warneri g. It immediately recalls P. x siamense, a natural 
hybrid between P. Appletonianum and P. callosum, figured, with its two 
parents, at page 17 of our fourth volume, but has a smaller dorsal sepal, 
with the veins more purple at the sides, and the apical halves of the 
petals much brighter purple. There are several small black warts along 
the upper margin of the petals, and the lip and staminode are fairly 
intermediate in character. The hybrid is fairly intermediate between the 
parents, though the dorsal sepal is most like P. barbatum. The resemblance 
to the natural hybrid just mentioned is easily accounted for when we 
remember how nearly allied to each other P. barbatum and P. callosum 
are. So far as we know, it is the first hybrid of artificial origin from P. 
Appletonianum. 
