THE ORCHID REVIEW. 309 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
CYPRIPEDIUM X JAMES H. VEITCH. 
More remarkable and distinct hybrid Cypripediums than those in whose 
parentage Cypripedium Stonei has participated can scarcely be found amidst 
the host of forms brought into existence by the industry of the hybridist. 
Foremost among them is C. x Morganie, raised from C. superbiens ? 
and C. Stonei f, and now to be seen in several varieties, all of which, 
however, are surpassed, from a florist’s point of view, by the variety 
langleyense, in which C. Stonei platyteenium takes the place of the species 
as pollen parent. This was the first hybrid to flower in which that remark- 
able ‘‘sport’”’ was used, but now another and still more striking one has 
been obtained, from C. Curtisii fertilised with the pollen of the same glorified 
variety of C. Stonei, and which received a First-class Certificate when sub- 
mitted to the Orchid Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society on 
Tuesday, August 28th, under the name of C. x James H. Veitch. On superficial 
view the new hybrid has a considerable resemblance to C. x Morganiz, but 
a closer inspection reveals the presence of characters, especially in the 
upper sepal, lip, and staminode, evidently derived from C. Curtisil, 
which clearly distinguish it from the older hybrid. The dorsal sepal is 
two and a half inches long, elliptical-ovate, ciliolate, pale green passing into 
white at the margin, folded at the mid-vein, where there is a purpie line 
extending almost to the apex; on each side of this are about six longer 
purple lines, alternating with six shorter and thinner, symmetrically curved 
ones. The petals are broadly ribbon-like, pendulous, four and a half to five 
inches long, and about an inch broad, ciliate with dark red-brown hairs of 
various lengths; light yellow, and rather evenly spotted with dark red- 
purple warts, except near the apex. The lip is two inches long, helmet- 
shaped, compressed laterally, and almost uniform red-crimson, with the 
infolded side-lobes paler but dotted with darker warts. The staminode is 
transversely oblong, pubescent, with two blunt cusps in front and a small 
rounded tooth between them; the colour pale yellow with some green 
reticulations in the centre. It is scarcely necessary to add that this fine 
hybrid was raised by Mr. Seden in the Veitchian establishments at Langley, 
near Slough. H. K 
CYPRIPEDIUM X W. R. LEE. 
This is a large and handsome hybrid from the collection of William R. 
Lee, Esq., Beech Lawn, Audenshaw, Manchester, which received an Award 
of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society on August 14th last, of which 
the two-flowered raceme has been kindly sent by Mr. Lee. Its parents, as 
has already been pointed out, are C. superbiens ¢ and C. Elliottianum 7 (the 
atter being only a form of C. Rothschildianum). It bears unmistakable 
