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confined to the lip, seem to enhance its beauty. Other particulars have 
been so recently given that it seems unnecessary to repeat them. It is now 
in the famous collection of Baron Sir H. Schréder, at The Dell, Egham, 
and we shall hope to hear of its behaviour another season, for there is 
something quite exceptional about it. Messrs. Hugh Low and Co. must be 
congratulated on having introduced so striking a plant. 
PAPHIOPEDIUM x SHIPWAYZ. 
A MOST interesting novelty has just appeared in the collection of Colonel 
Shipway, Grove Park, Chiswick. Mr. Walters, Colonel Shipway’s 
gardener, states that it was purchased from Messrs. Linden, of Brussels, as 
Cypripedium—or Paphiopedium—Dayanum, but, on flowering, it has proved 
to be very different ; in fact, much more like P. Hooker, another Bornean 
species, and a careful comparison of all the characters forces me to the 
conclusion that it is a natural hybrid between them. The leaves are more 
strongly marked than is usual with P. Dayanum, in which respect it 
approaches P. Hookere. It has also an elongated scape, as in the latter, 
and the size, shape, and colour, are much more like those of this species, 
from which, however, it is still very distinct, and the modifying influence, I 
think, must be traced to P. Dayanum. The dorsal sepal is distinctly lined 
with green at the base, and becomes whitish, slightly tinged with purple, 
round the upper margin, the apex also being slightly elongated and folded. 
The petals, though much like P. Hookere in colour, are not obovately 
widened at the apex, and the ciliz are also much longer. The basal part is 
green, and a few small spots occur below the middle. _ The lip is most like 
P. Hookere, and the staminode is orbicular in outline, but, instead of being 
obcordately bilobed, has a pair of falcate teeth at the apex, with a much 
shorter blunt tooth between. No other Bornean species, so far as I can see, 
would account for the characters above pointed out, and it now remains for 
some of our hybridists to prove or disprove the suggested parentage by 
crossing the two species together. It is remarkable that this makes the 
fourth Bornean Paphiopedium believed to be of natural hybrid origin, and 
in each case P. Dayanum is believed to have been one of the parents (see 
Orchid Review, iv., p. 366). Its appearance is very interesting, and the 
gradually accumulating evidence of the way the Bornean species grow 
together suggests that we have not yet exhausted the list, and, as other 
combinations are possible, a sharp look-out should be kept for such plants 
among Bornean importations. 
: R. A. R. 
