THE ORCHID REVIEW. 335 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
PAPHIOPEDIUM X WIERTZIANUM. 
Tus isa large and striking hybrid, of which we have received a flower 
from Messrs. Linden, L’Horticulture Internationale, Brussels, with the 
record that it was raised from P. Rothschildianum X Lawrenceanum. In 
its large and broad dorsal sepal it most resembles the latter, but the petals 
are much more attenuated, and 3} inches long. The lip, also, has more of 
the character of P. Rothschildianum, while the staminode is obovate, 
convex and hairy, especially so near the base. The ground colour is 
yellowish-green, with about twenty-one dark purple-brown stripes on the 
dorsal sepal, and numerous similar spots on the petals almost to the apex. 
The lip is dark purple-brown. It appears to have a very robust habit, like 
both its parents, and will doubtless develop into a very fine thing. M. 
L. Linden, in his letter, remarks, ‘‘I have dedicated it to the memory of 
our celebrated painter, Wiertz.” 
PAPHIOPEDIUM X J. COLES. 
This a very handsome hybrid raised in the collection of R. H. 
Measures, Esq., the Woodlands, Streatham, according to the record, from a 
fine P. X Godefroyz lencochilum crossed with the pollen of P. Dayanum 
superbum. In shape it most resembles the latter, but the petals are 
densely covered all over with small purple dots, and the numerous lines of 
the dorsal sepal are made up of innumerable minute dots, with a few 
scattered ones between the veins. The lip is also most like the latter 
species, and the staminode is transversely elliptical-oblong, and convex, 
with a triangular acute apex, and many minute purple dots on a lighter 
ground. There is very little resemblance to the first-named parent, at all 
events in the shape of the flower, and one would rather have thought of 
P. superbiens as one of the parents. The cili# of the petals are also 
shorter than in the case of most hybrids derived from P. Dayanum. Mr. 
Coles, however, remarks that there is not the slightest doubt about the 
record, and this point may be left until other seedlings flower. 
PAPHIOPEDIUM X_ ERos. 
This fine hybrid was raised in the collection of A. W. Wills, Esq., 
Wylde Green, Birmingham, from Paphiopedium barbatum Warneri crossed 
with P. x Charles Canham (villosum xX superbiens), and, as might be 
expected, bears a certain resemblance to P. x Harrisianum, though the 
petals and lip are more distinctly light purple in shade. The dorsal sepal and 
lip are each 2$ inches long, and the petals measure 3 inches long, and thus it 
will appear that the flower is above the average size. We have received from 
Mr. Wills a photograph showing the entire plant—which is of vigorous 
