364 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
The recorded crosses between C. niveum and C. Curtisii are, C. x 
Cowleyanum (G. C., 1892, xi., p. 72), C. X non plus ultra (as per Protheroe 
and Mortis’s Catalogue, 24th September, 1895), and C. x Cowleyanum 
var. Anna Louise, the last-named obtaining an Award of Merit in 1896 
(O. R., iv., p. 190). 
With regard to this cross, I have a personal experience to record which - 
may be interesting. In June, 1891, I used a pollen (one side only) of 
niveum on a flower of C. Curtisii; the seed was sown in January, 1892, and 
in September of the same year, two seedlings made their appearance. As 
time progressed, one seedling grew much more rapidly than the other, the 
foliage having much the same colour and markings as that of C. Curtisii. 
Early in May last, it flowered, and although the whole flower is paler 
throughout than a bloom of its actual seed parent, with which I have been 
able to compare it, it is not sufficiently distinct to warrant me in showing it 
as the hybrid it undoubtedly is. The curious thing is that the other seed- 
ling, which seems almost at a standstill, possibly for the very reason that 
C. niveum has asserted its influence much more strongly, has leaves of a 
darker colour and of more substance, and differs very greatly from its 
fellow. 
C. X Vanhoutteanum was probably derived from C. niveum and C. X 
Dauthieri (O. R., i., p. 259). 
The cross between C. Dayanum @ and C. niveum ¢ has recently been 
recorded as Paphiopedium Xx Lily Measures (O. R,, vi., p. 293). 
The crossing of C. niveum with the pollen of C. Druryi, resulted in the 
production of the very pretty C. X microchilum, a hybrid which, flowering 
first in 1882, only received an Award as recently as 1893. 
In the Journal of the R.H.S., xii., p. 127, it is recorded that on the 26th 
August, 1890, Major Marwood, Whitby, Yorkshire (gr. Mr. Horner), sub- 
mitted C. Marwoodi X (C. niveum x C. Harrisianum). The plant was 
not strong, and the Committee desired to see it again. 
Among the plants representing the cross of C. niveum with C, insigne, X 
Muriel Hollington used to be included, but it must now be transferred to 
the ciliolari-niveum crosses (O. R., v., p. 37). C X Venus, however, is a 
true representative of this cross, being derived from C. niveum 2? and C. 
insigne Sandera ¢ (G. C., 1895, i., p. 200). Then we have Paphiopedium 
X niveo-insigne (O. R., v., p. 37). Mrs. E. V. Low is propably also a true 
representative of this cross, and it received an Award of Merit both in 
London and in Manchester (O. R., v., pp. 223, 253.) 
‘I now come to a most interesting group,—the hybrids for which C. 
Lawrenceanum and C. niveum are responsible. They are C. x Aphrodite, 
X Antigone, X Telemachus, and X Mrs. Harry Veitch. C. x Aphrodite 
first appeared, but it was only in 1893 that it received a First-class Certifi- 
