5b 
Firmin Lambeau and exhibited at Brussels, 
October 20th, igi2, when it was unanimously 
awarded a Certificate of Merit. 
CatTLEYA ObeRON. — A useful and 
elegant autumn flowering hybrid between 
C. Fabia and C. Hardyana. A very pretty 
and distinctly marked variety was shown by 
Mr. E. R. Ashton at the Royal Horticultural 
Society, November 5th, 191 2. 
Cattleya Mulleri. — In ihis addition 
to the albino section we have a beautiful 
hybrid resulting from C. Mrs. Myra Peeters 
(Gaskelliana alba x Warneri alba) x C. 
intermedia alba. The stiff, erect flowers are 
of good substance and pure white. Shown 
by Messrs. Sander and Sons, Royal Horti- 
cultural Society, November 5th, igi2. 
L.^lio-Cattleya Miss Locke. — Raised 
in the Brockhurst collection, this hybrid 
between C. Mantinii and L.-C. Isis (pumila 
X Marstersonias) has parentage likely to give 
very x'arying results. The first seedling to 
flower inherits much of the Mantinii shape 
and colour. 
ONCIDIODA MaRJORIE. — By crossing C. 
Noezliana with On. Forbesii, Messrs. Charles- 
worth have produced an interesting hybrid 
with reddish-buff coloured flowers having a 
yellowish-buff tint on the apex of the 
labellum. Four other Oncidiodas are known : 
Charlesworthii (C. N. x O. incurvum), cmna- 
barina (O. monachicum x C. N.), Cybele 
(O. sarcodes x C. N.), and Penelope (C. N. 
x O. leucochilum). 
NOMENCLATURE OF 
CYPRIPEDIUMS. 
YOUR article urging greater simplifica- 
tion of nomenclature in Orchids will 
be read with interest by amateurs, 
and, at the same time, will provoke criticism. 
The basis for the suggestion of the new 
system of naming seems to be that all 
Orchids, nominative Cypripediums, inheriting 
the same parents shall receive the same name. 
If these varieties contained the same parents 
in equal degrees no one would dispute the 
advisability of this process ; but if in unequal 
[December, igi2. 
degrees then neither advisedly nor scientifi- 
cally may one ascribe to them a common 
name. 
Take, for example, the varieties aureum, 
Leander, and dellense cited for a common 
name of aureum because they each contain 
insigne, villosum, and Spicerianum. Analyse 
the three : — 
Aureum = (msigne x villosum) x Spicer- 
ianum ; i.e., aureum is half a Spicerianum; 
because this species is half of the parentage ; 
so that aureum consists of one part insigne, 
one part villosum, and two parts Spicer- 
ianum. 
Leander = (insigne x Spicerianum) x villo- 
sum ; i.e., one part insigne, one part Spicer- 
ianum, and two parts villosum as representing 
half the parentage. 
Dellense = (villosum x Spicerianum) x 
insigne ; i.e., one part villosum, one part 
Spicerianum, and two parts insigne. 
Could all these three hybrids be called 
aureum ? Pursue the idea a little further. 
Cross aureum with insigne and an analysis of 
the hybrid will give one part villosum, two 
parts Spicerianum, and fi\'e parts insigne. 
Cross this hybrid again with insigne and a 
hybrid will be produced containing" one part 
villosum, two parts Spicerianum, and twelve 
parts insigne ; yet it shall be called an 
aureum. 
If instead of crossing aureum twice with 
insigne it be crossed twice with Spicerianum 
a hybrid is obtained having one part villosum, 
one part insigne, and fourteen parts Spicer- 
ianum. This also shall be called an aureum. 
Thus there will be one aureum containing 
i2/i6ths insigne, and another hybrid con- 
taining i4/i6ths Spicerianum. 
Would not such a system be illogical and 
unscientific. The only way out of the diffi- 
culty is to call all hybrid Cypripediums by 
florist's names, and let the Orchid Committees 
issue from time to time a list of varieties that 
they consider synonymous, as does the 
National Rose Society. 
Besides, a lot of made-up parentages are 
afloat! 
John Crombleholme. 
St. Mary's, Clayton-le-Moors. 
THE ORCHID WORLD. 
