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Mr. Measures’ brother for one hundred guineas. A year later the re- 
mainder was divided into three, one of the plants passing into the collection 
of F. L. Ames, Esq., it is said for one hundred guineas. In November, 18go, 
Messrs. Sander are said to have been glad to get back one of the remaining 
plants for the sum of £250. Baron Schréder’s plant is said to be still intact. 
The rarity of the variety, added to its great beauty, naturally enhanced its 
value, but, being a plant which can quickly be increased, it will doubtless 
soon become more accessible. Other yellow varieties have since appeared, 
as Macfarlanei, Sanderiana (figured in our last volume, p- 145, fig. 10), and 
Ernesti (/.c. p. 362), all of them, however, differing from the original one in 
certain respects. 
Cypripedium insigne Sander, Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron., 1888, ii. p. 692, also p. 606; 
262d., 1891, ii. pp. 618, 669, fig. 96. : 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
CYPRIPEDIUM X BELLINUM. 
Tuis is a pretty hybrid, raised in the establishment of Messrs. F. Sander 
and Co., of St. Albans, from C. x vernixium $ and C. x Harrisianum 4, 
themselves both of hybrid origin. Its parentage might be briefly expressed 
thus :—C. villosum }, C. barbatum 1, C. Argus +. It has much of the 
general character of C. x vernixium, with the addition of some dark brown 
spots on the dorsal sepal. The ground colour is very light olive-green, 
veined and spotted with dark brown, and narrowly margined with white, 
the sides much reflexed. The petals are horizontal, light shining brown, 
and obscurely spotted with dark brown towards the base. The lip is 
rather long and narrow, and light shining brown in front, and the staminode 
pale with a small green tubercle. As might be expected, the hybrid is most 
like C. villosum, though modified in shape and colour by the influence of 
the other species, whose distinctive characters, however, are quite oblite- 
rated. 
CYPRIPEDIUM X CROsSIANUM, CASTLE HILL VARIETY. 
This is the result of crossing Cypripedium x Crossianum with the pollen 
of C. insigne Chantini, and thus, strictly speaking, is not a variety of C. x 
Crossianum, but an example of a hybrid again crossed with one of its own 
parents, analogous with Selenipedium x calurum and S. x cardinale. The 
plant is more yellow than C. x Crossianum, the dorsal sepal having a 
broad white margin, with some bright purple spots. It was raised in the 
collection of G. C. Rafael, Esq., Castle Hill, Englefield Green.—O’Brien in 
Gard. Chron., Nov. 25th, p- 648. 
