Plate 499 . 
CYPRIPEDIUM DOMINIANUM. 
Amongst the most successful of hybridizers must be ranked 
our friend Mr. Bominy, who has for many years, in the 
establishment of Messrs. Veitch, of Chelsea, evidenced so much 
skill and perseverance in the cultivation and hybridization of 
the most aristocratic and varied of all Flora’s gems, the family 
of Orchids. We have already enriched our pages with illustra- 
tions of his success, and Cattleya Pilcheri and Exoniensis bear 
witness to his skill and perseverance ; we now figure another of 
a different family, the curious Cypripedium, of which we have 
already figured Cypripedium Harrisianum, another of Mr. 
Dominy’s hybrids. 
Cypripedium Dominianum is a hybrid between Cypripedium Can- 
datum and Cypripedium Pearseii, and any one acquainted with 
the two parents will at once see that it is a veritable hybrid. 
Many crosses of this kind are oftentimes merely varieties of 
one or other of the parents, the blood, so to speak, of the other 
not being apparent ; but here, we have only to look at the 
foliage and see how exactly intermediate it is between that of 
the two parents, to be able to judge how thoroughly the 
crossing has been carried out ; and the same effects may be 
traced in the flower itself. Our artist has found it impossible 
to give in the plate the entire length of the singular caudal 
appendages of the flower, and has therefore added a small view 
