JULY, 1903.| THE ORCHID REVIEW. 201 
PAPHIOPEDILUM VIRENS. 
THE annexed illustration represents a good plant of the Bornean 
Paphiopedilum virens, grown in the collection of O. O. Wrigley, Esq., 
Bridge Hall, Bury. The photograph was sent by Mr. Wrigley, together 
with a second one showing a form with rather narrower, more acute dorsal 
sepal and petals, the latter being also less reflexed. Both were imported in 
the same clump, among a lot of P. Dayanum, and purchased from Messrs. 
Fic. 37. PAPHIOPEDILUM VIRENS. 
Hugh Low & Co. some few years ago. The species is rather rare it 
: ess showy than many others, but, as 
her cultivated species. 
tonne 
cultivation, probably because much 
Mr. Wrigley remarks, it is very distinct from any ot 
It was originally described by Reichenbach in 1863 (Bot. Zeit., 1863, p. 128), 
from materials supplied by the late John Day, Esq., of 1 ottenham. 
Mr. Day has also left some excellent drawings of it, both in pen and ink 
gether with 
oOPpetn 
and in water-colour, (Day Coll., ii., pp. 19-20, 1X., pp. 33-34), t 
