THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
PAPHIOPEDIUM BELLATULUM ALBUM. 
THE annexed figure represents the beautiful Cypripedium or Paphiopedium 
bellatulum album, which was described at page 207 of our third volume. 
It is from a plant in the collection of O. O. Wrigley, Esq., Bury, and had 
been open for about a month when the photograph was taken. It is, of 
course, reduced in size, as the flower measured 2% inches in diameter. Mr. 
Wrigley remarks that the plant is in perfect health, but he finds that it 
requires the greatest care in watering, or it is liable to damp. It is a true 
albino, as the scape, bract, and ovary are entirely green, and every trace of 
purple has also vanished from the leaves. It has, however, a very good 
constitution, and we have seen good plants of it in several collections, all of 
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which, we believe, are subdivisions of the original clump, for we havejnot 
heard of the discovery of other specimens in the various importations 
received from the Shan"States. It first flowered in Europe in the collection 
of Sir Frederick Wigan, Clare Lawn, East Sheen, in June, 1895, when it 
received a First-class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society, Of 
its value for hybridising purposes we cannot yet speak, though it has already 
been utilised to some extent as a pollen parent, and one seedling is reported 
to have already flowered (see page 220), though the report seems incredible, 
and we should like to receive the exact particulars. 
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