SEPTEMBER, 1903.| THE ORCHID REVIEW. 273 
PAPHIOPEDILUM NIVEUM. 
THE annexed illustration represents a beautiful little specimen of 
Paphiopedilum niveum from the collection of the Right Hon. J. 
Chamberlain, M.P., Highbury, Birmingham, and it shows what the species 
is capable of when well grown. The photograph was sent by Mr. Mackay, 
who must be congratulated on his success with it, for one seldom sees it in 
such robust health, and flowering so profusely as in the present example. 
We do not know the number of blooms borne by the plant, but there 
appears to be over a dozen scapes, and some of them are evidently twin- 
flowered. It would be interesting to know a little more about the 
conditions under which it was grown. The species was described by 
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Reichenbach in 1869, under the name of Cypripedium niveum (Gard. Chron. 
1869, p. 1038), and Messrs. Veitch remark that its first appearance was an 
agreeable surprise. In 1868 they received from Moulmein a consignment 
of plants, supposed to be C. concolor, but on flowering in the following 
spring they proved to be a new species. As there is no evidence of its 
being a native of Moulmein, it is supposed that the plants were collected in 
the Langkawi Islands, where Forstermann afterwards found it, when 
collecting for Messrs. Sander. There it is said to be found growing 
on limestone mountains, generally on the western sides, where it is 
not much exposed to the sun; often in the crevices of the sloping 
