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hybrid.” M. Duval pointed out as another objection that while C. ciliolare 
was imported in quantity, and C. Curtisii in numbers scarcely less, C. 
superbiens had only appeared once, and then only one or two plants. The 
reply was ingenious, namely, that importers were not so simple as to import 
in quantity a plant which they can propagate by division and sell at a good 
price. Now we have one or two remarks to make. Cypripedium ciliolare 
is a Philippine species, C. superbiens is a little doubtful, though generally 
supposed to be from Malacca. Owing to the doubt about the latter we will 
put aside all questions about the difficulty of transit of the pollen, but we 
ask how is it that the reputed hybrid comes to grow hundreds of miles 
away, in Sumatra? The fact is some mistake has been made, though we 
cannot suggest what it is. Considering the amount of resemblance between 
the two reputed parents, the most plausible explanation is that the hybrid 
has been mistaken for Curtisii, but others will readily suggest themselves. 
Will M. Bleu kindly send us his next flower of the hybrid? The question 
should be cleared up. If some one were to suggest that C. superbiens was 
a natural hybrid, the chief difficulty would be to account for its parentage, 
for the Malacca habitat seems open to question, and we know it has been 
searched for there. 
STAUROPSIS PHILIPPINENSIS. 
This very interesting Philippine species has at last appeared in cultiva- 
tion, having flowered under the care of Mr. G. E. Day, Orchid Gardens, 
Hazelwood, King’s Langley, Herts. It was found growing in a native 
basket with Aérides quinquevulnera, some other Philippine species being 
received at the same time. It was originally collected by Cuming, and was 
described in 1845 by Lindley, in the Annals of Natural History (xv. p. 386) 
under the name of Trichglottis philippinensis. In 1860 Reichenbach trans- 
ferred it to a new genus under the name Stauropsis philippinensis (Hamb. 
Garteng., xvi. p. 117), Trichoglottis pallens, Lindl., also being added at the 
same time, though this has since been transferred to Phalzenopsis. The 
present species has an erect, climbing, leafy stem, which produces roots at 
intervals, the leaves being elliptical-oblong in shape and about one and a half 
inches long. The pedicelled flowers are solitary in the axils of the leaves, and 
rather smaller than those of Phalznopsis violacea. The sepals and petals are 
bright red-brown, and the lip purple on the sides, the rest being nearly white. 
A hairy keel runs down the centre of the fleshy lip. It is apparently now 
introduced for the first time—at all events in 1872 Reichenbach spoke of 
it as “not seen by the recent Orchid-gathering tourists, who did the Philip- 
pines generally, smoking Manilla cigars at home and commanding Orchids 
from the inhabitants;” and I know of no recent records. About eight 
Species are now included in the genus. : 
x. A. Ee. 
