72 THE ORCHID REVIEW. | MARCH, 1903. 
Hera, from the author’s collection. These figures, by the kindness of the 
Council of the R.H.S., we are able to reproduce, anda glance will show what 
a remarkably polymorphic series they represent. The object of the paper 
is to test how far Mendel’s principles can be applied to hybrid Orchids, and 
varieties). 
HERA (twelve 
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BURBAGENSE 
VAR. 
PAPHIOPEDILUM 
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iG, 
for this purpose a series of 49 hybrids from Paphiopedilum x Lee 
and P. Boxallii 3, raised in the collection, were chosen. 
happened to flower together in the early part of | 
photographed in three groups, as shown. 
inum 2 
Thirty of them 
ast year, and these were 
The numbers attached indicate 
