﻿THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



ORCHIDS FROM WESTON-SUPER-MARE. 



A beautiful series of flowers is sent from the collection of W. M. 

 Appleton, Esq., of Weston-super-Mare; mostly hybrid Paphiopedilums, 

 and containing a good proportion of novelties. First, however, must be 

 mentioned a flower of Laelia superbiens, which is rather interesting, as the 

 plant from which it was cut is said to have come home in a piece of white 

 Lselia anceps, thus affording evidence that the two grow together. An 

 abnormal flower of some Paphiopedilum is very puzzling, as it consists of 

 four sepals in opposite pairs, a whorl of four undulate petals, two imperfect 

 lips, four anthers, a single staminode, and one stigma — all more or less 

 abnormal — which suggests that in some way two flowers have become fused 

 together. Last year a flower sent from the same plant was also abnormal, 

 as described at page 127 of our last volume. It appears to be a hybrid of 

 P. Spicerianum, possibly a form of P. X Medeia. 



Paphiopedilum X villexul (villosum X exul) is a striking and beautiful 

 hybrid, having flowers of intermediate shape, and bright yellow in colour, 

 with a broad white margin to the dorsal sepal, on the centre of which are 

 numerous very dark brown blotches, with some smaller ones at the base of 

 the petals. P. X Madiotianum is a pretty hybrid from P. villosum X 

 Chamberlainianum, retaining much of the general habi: of the latter, but a 

 greater approach to P. villosum in the details of the flower. P. X Kamilii 

 agrees with the preceding, except that P. Boxallii replaces P. villosum as 

 the seed parent, and there is more brown on the dorsal sepal, and the 

 petals have more of the shape and reticulations of that parent. In a 

 similar way P. X Venilia agrees with P. X Madiotianum, except that 

 P. Victoria-Mariae replaces P. Chamberlainianum as the pollen parent. 

 The seedling agrees well with the original, described at page 58. The 

 influence of the pollen parent is very obvious in the shape and colour of the 

 lip and petals. Another pretty hybrid was raised from P. X Leeanum 

 Masereelianum X Chamberlainianum, and thus is a form of P. X Maria;. 

 It recently received an Award of Merit from the R. H. S. under the name 

 of Cypripedium X Morteni. It resembles the preceding hybrid in habit, 

 but has some handsome purple markings on the dorsal sepal and petals. 

 P. X Dowlingianum (insigne X Psyche) is a gem, having a cream-yellow 

 flower with large purple blotches on the dorsal sepal, and smaller ones on 

 the petals. It is said to be much better than the original. P. X Phcebe 

 (bellatulum X philippinense) is a handsome hybrid, quite intermediate in 

 character, which Mr. Appleton describes as one of the best and darkest 

 forms he has yet raised. P. X Elsie (Boxallii X Charlesworthii) is 

 another charming thing, fairly intermediate in character, but most re- 

 sembling the latter in the colour of the dorsal sepal, while the whitish 



