THE ORCHID REVIEW. 143 
CYPRIPEDIUM X WIGANIANUM. 
This is a very fine hybrid, now in the collection of F. Wigan, Esq., Clare 
Lawn, East Sheen, whose parentage is somewhat doubtful, though, judging 
from appearances, it may have been derived from C. x Harrisianum and 
C. Ashburtoniz. It was purchased at Messrs. Protheroe and Morris’s Sale 
Rooms without any account of its origin. The leaves are much like those 
of a very large C. barbatum, but six-tenths of an inch long by one and 
a quarter to two inches broad, and the scape stout a foot high and two- 
flowered. The flowers are five and three-quarter inches in diameter across 
the spreading petals. The dorsal sepal is ovate, somewhat twisted, two and 
three-quarter inches broad, light green, regularly nerved and reticulated 
with dull purple-brown and a few similar spots near the base, and a narrow 
white margin. The petals are seven-eighths of an inch broad, shining 
purple-brown, with numerous darker spots on the basal half, some being 
much smaller than others. The lip is deep purple-brown, two and one-eighth 
of ainch long; and the staminode three-quarters of an inch broad, with 
rounded teeth at the apex. It is a robust grower, anda decidedly handsome 
hybrid. It flowered late last autumn. 
CYPRIPEDIUM X I0-SPICERIANUM. 
A pretty hybrid raised in the collection of W. Vanner, Esq., Camden 
Wood, Chislehurst (gr. Mr. Robbins), from Cypripedium x Io grande 
crossed with the pollen of C. Spicerianum, in shape about intermediate 
between the parents. The basal part of the dorsal sepal is light green, 
the upper part white, and a narrow purple band extends along the central 
‘nerve. The petals are light green, with many small dusky spots near the 
base, but the large spots of the mother plant have quite vanished. The lip 
is about intermediate in shape and colour. The staminode is much like 
the mother plant in shape, but suffused with purple as in C. Spicerianum. 
It was exhibited at the Drill Hall, Westminster, on December t2th last, 
together with the two parents. 
CATTLEYA X ARTHURIANA. 
This is apparently the first hybrid from Cattleya luteola. It was raised 
in the collection of C. Dorman, Esq., Lawrie Park, Sydenham, about ten 
years ago, by Mr. W. H. White (now Orchid grower to Sir Trevor 
Lawrence, Bart.), C. Dormaniana was the seed parent. The plant is 
about intermediate in habit, and the flower two and a half inches in 
diameter. The sepals and petals are yellow, the front lobe and tips of the 
side lobes amethyst-purple, and the rest of the lip white. It is named 
after Mr. Dorman’s son, the Rev. Arthur Dorman.—O’Brien in Gard. 
Chron., Jan. 27th, p. 102. 
