﻿THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



[January, , 9 o 4 . 



round dark purple blotches, which are only slightly confluent in places. The 

 petals, lip, and staminode have very largely retained the villosum character. 

 The petals are rather short and broad, and spread nearly horizontally. 

 Both shape and colour are excellent. 



PAPHIOPEDILUMS FROM BURY. 



A beautiful series of winter-blooming Paphiopedilums was exhibited at 

 the R.H.S. meeting on December 15th last from the collection ot O. O. 

 Wrigley, Esq., Bridge Hall, Bury, and a fine collection was afterward, 

 forwarded to us by Mr. Rogers. P. insigne is present in force, and includes 

 twenty-seven named varieties, of which no less than eleven are yellow. 

 Most of them have already been described in these pages, and it is 

 surprising to find so much variation among yellow forms. They differ 

 however, in the breadth of the dorsal sepal, and in the distinctness and 

 amount of the spotting, and in some other details, the original Sanderae 

 being still the best of a beautiful series. Similar differences are found 

 between the sixteen spotted forms, the beautiful Harefield Hall variety 

 being much the finest of the series. There is a remarkable range of 

 variation in size, and in the number and magnitude of the spots, in some cases 

 being about four times as numerous and only a quarter as large as in others, 

 with a further variation in the relative size of the green and white areas, 

 the spots becoming purple as soon as they extend into the white upper part. 



The hybrids are a fine series, and include P. X Arthurianum, P. X 

 nitens Wrigleyanum, P. X Sallieri Hyeanum, P. X aureum Marion, having 

 the light brown spots partially confluent in lines, and P. X Leeanum 

 magnificum and Clinkaberryanum. The latter is an enormous flower, with 

 the dorsal sepal only a line under three inches broad, and bearing 

 numerous small spots, and the petals an inch across. It received an 

 Award of Merit. P. X Tityus and its variety superbum, with P. X 

 Pollettianum superbum, are richly coloured forms of great beauty, having 

 the dorsal sepal finely spotted, while in the handsome P. X Swinburnei 

 magnificum the. spots are most conspicuous on the petals. Lastly must be 

 mentioned a two-flowered scape of P. X Schillianum. It is a very 

 beautiful series, and the splendid development of the flowers shows evidence 

 of excellent culture. These plants are invaluable for winter blooming. 



In connection with the yellow forms ot P. insigne mentioned above it 

 may be interesting to reproduce the group of six varieties exhibited at 

 the Horticultural Hall, Boston, in January, 1900, by John E. Rothwell, 

 Esq., Brookline, Mass., to which the Silver Medal of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society was awarded. The variety Laura Kimball, in the 



