248 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [AUGUST, 1903. 
PHRAGMOPEDILUM x CARDINALE AND PP. x 
LEUCORRHODUM. 
THE accompanying illustrations represent two very beautiful hybrids which 
are variously known in gardens under the names of Cypripedium or Seleni- 
pedium, but which it is now known form a quite distinct genus. The 
differences have already been pointed out,-and it will suffice to mention 
here that the last-named is a smali genus of reed-like plants not at present 
known in cultivation, and which if received out of flower would probably 
be classed as Sobralias. The species and hybrids of Phragmopedilum are 
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very floriferous, and some of them may be described as almost ever- 
Fic. 41. PHRAGMOPEDILUM X CARDINALE. 
blooming plants, flower after flower appearing on the same spike for months 
in succession. They are also of the easiest possible culture, and the chief 
drawback they possess is that they take up a considerable amount of room, 
and have a habit of dropping their flowers while still fresh. 
P. X CARDINALE (fig. 41) is a very beautiful secondary hybrid, raised by 
Messrs. James Veitch & Sons from P. x Sedeni @ and P. Schlimil 
albiflorum 3, which flowered for the first time in 1882. The sepals and 
petals are white, sometimes with a faint flush of pink, and the lip bright 
carmine-rose, and thus producing a very effective contrast. It received a 
