204 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JuLy, 1903. 
28 species are admitted, and these are divided into three series, Arcuinervia, 
‘Retinervia, and Flabellinervia, the former being again divided into four 
-sections, the largest being Encypripedilum, which includes most of the 
hardy species known in gardens. Phragmopedilum is divided into five — 
‘sections, two of them containing only a single species, the two thus isolated 
being P. Schlimii and P. caudatum. Paphiopedilum is extensively sub- 
-divided, the forty-seven species recognized being grouped in three subgenera, 
-one of which is again divided into three sections and another into eleven, 
-seven of these consisting of only a single species. Thus P. Rothschildianum ~ 
‘forms the section Gonatopedilum, P. Stonei the section Prenipedilum, P. 
Parishii section Mystropetalum, P. hirsutissimum section Stictopetalum, 
P. Druryi section Thyopetalum, P. Fairrieanum section Ceratopetalum, and 
P. Spicerianum section Cymatopetalum. P. Charlesworthii is placed in a 
‘section called Neuropetalum, with P. exul, P. insigne, P. villosum, and P. 
-dilectum, but the vegetative organs are scarcely distinguishable from those 
-of P. Spicerianum, and the floral characters would as well exclude it from 
-one group as the other (if they did not make a new section for it). The fact 
is the last five sections should have been united. The habitat of P. 
‘Charlesworthii is also incorrectly given, and should be Shan States (sec 
4). KR. ll., p: 170). 
Several other details are open to criticism. For example, P. Boxalli 
is made a variety of P. villosum but P. dilectum retained as a species, 
though it is only a poor form of the first named. P. Wolterianum is 
Synonymous with P. Appletonianum (which also appears again as 
‘callosum var. sublave) ; and P. amabile with P. Bullenianum. P. venustum 
does not belong to the same group, while P. Mastersianum, which does 
‘belong, is placed elsewhere. P. nigritum is not a variety of P. barbatum, 
‘but a species from Borneo. The suggestion that it may be a natural 
hybrid between P. purpuratum and P. barbatum is singularly infelicitous, - 
one being a native of Hongkong, the other of Malacca. Substitute P. 
‘Spicerianum (and Assam) for barbatum, and the remark applies equally 
‘well to P. X Lebrunianum. In fact, natural hybrids are unfortunate, for 
P. Rothschildianum x Dayanum, and P. villosum _ insigne, are both 
‘enumerated twice over. P. Bullenianum is given as one parent of P. x 
‘siamense, when it should have been P. Appletonianum. P. x Shipway® 
Rolfe, is omitted, but the reference is given, though placed after “© 
Shipwayz, Shipw. Sem. hortic. 1898, 503,” which is only an echo of the 
Preceding; an utterly topsy-turvy arrangement. P. X Petri should have 
I oc ded here, not placed as a variety of P. Dayanum, while P. 
oe which 1s treated as a species, is simply a form of the a 
ies ai a epidendricum was formerly made a species of Paphiopea™”” 
ngly said to be a Catasetum. It isa Cyrtopera. 
