The Scientific Notebooks of German Orchidologist Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Kränzlin

ORCHIDS. 23

NEW ORCHIDS.

CYPRIPEDIUM HARRISIANUM.

Hort., Veitch.

See Illustration.

A beautiful hybrid, obtained by crossing C. villosum with C. barbatum.

In foliage and flower the plant, whilst partaking largely of the character of both parents, is perfectly distinct from either.

The following, condensed from Professor Reichenbach's description, published in the Gardeners' Chronicle of January 30th, 1869, page 108, will convey the most accurate description we can give of this distinct plant:—

The leaves are narrower than those of barbatum, but broader than those of villosum, spotted as in barbatum, and glossy like those in villosum.

The peduncle is quite that of villosum. The bract is green and violet, but having less hairs than that of C. villosum.

The upper sepal comes nearer C. barbatum, but is covered with a denser pubescence. The dark violet streaks in lieu of being distinct are confluent, so that the greater part of it appears of a blackish purple, whitish near the top. It is very glossy. The inferior sepal is whitish green, and not glossy.

The petals are spread at a right angle, and are ligulate ovate acute, hairy on the upper and under limb as in C. barbatum, narrower than in C. villosum, very shining port wine coloured, with a very dark line on the middle nerves, which are green beneath and dark atro-violaceous above.

The lip is of a light port wine colour, with a tinge of light green here and there; it has dark brown spots on both sides of the limb, bristles around the mouth of the sac, and fine dark bristles internally.

The colours are much brighter and darker than those of C. villosum, and the flowers are as large as those of the largest varieties of C. barbatum.

A plate of this beautiful novelty will be found in the Floral Magazine of April, 1869.

The plant has been awarded numerous First Class certificates.

We are again indebted to the energy and skill of Mr. Dominy for this beautiful acquisition, and at his request it has been named in honour of Mr. Harris of Exeter, a gentleman to whom Mr. Dominy is indebted for some of his earliest ideas in the hybridisation of Orchids.

Price £5 5s. each.

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[Spicerianum] num) (votes, unanimous), from G. F. Moore, Esq. (gr. Mr. Page). Dorsal sepal large, white with a green base; petals and lip greenish, the petals tipped with white.

To Cypripedium × Thompsoni (villosum aureum × 'Calypso') (votes, 10 for, 3 against), from G. F. Moore, Esq. Lower half of the dorsal sepal rose-purple, upper half white. Petals and lip yellowish tinged and veined with purple.

To Cypripedium × 'Graceæ,' var. 'W. H. Page,' (niveum × Boxallii atratum) (votes, unanimous), from G. F. Moore, Esq. Flowers white tinged with purple, the upper sepal having broad irregular lines of chocolate-purple.

Other Exhibits.

Baron Schröder (Ballantine|gr. Mr. Ballantine]]) showed a fine inflorescence of Odontoglossum × elegans, 'Eastwood Park variety,' and two forms of Cypripedium × Lathamianum.

M. C. Beranek, Paris, sent two hybrid Cypripediums.

J. Taylor, Esq., Reigate, exhibited fine spikes of Dendrobium speciosum.

H. T. Pitt, Esq. (gr. Mr. Thurgood), sent Cypripedium Pittianum.

Mr. Tracy, Twickenham, showed Cattleya Trianæi 'Bessie.'

De B. Crawshay, Esq. (gr. Mr. Stables), sent Odontoglossum × Wilckeanum 'Argus.'

M. Chas. Vuylsteke, Loochristi, Belgium, showed two fine Odontoglossum × Wilkeanum, and O. × Vuylstekei.

J. T. Bennett-Poë, Esq. (gr. Mr. Downes), again showed Ipsea speciosa, finely flowered.

H. Little, Esq. (gr. Mr. Howard), sent Lycaste costata.

Messrs Jas. Veitch staged hybrids.

ORCHID COMMITTEE, FEBRUARY 23, 1904.

Mr. VEITCH in the Chair, and twenty-three members present.

Awards Recommended.

Silver-gilt Flora Medal.

To Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford (gr. Mr. White) for rare Orchids.

To Jeremiah Colman, Esq., Gatton Park (gr. Mr. Bound), for Dendrobiums.

To Messrs. Sander, St. Albans, for Odontoglossums, Dendrobiums, and Cypripediums.

Silver Flora Medal.

To R. G. Thwaites, Esq., Streatham (gr. Mr. Black), for hybrids.

To Mr. Cypher, Cheltenham, for Dendrobiums and Cypripediums.

Silver Banksian Medal.

To Messrs. Jas. Veitch, for hybrids.

To J. Bradshaw, Esq., Southgate (gr. Mr. Whitelegge), for a group.

To Messrs. Hugh Low, for a group.

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petals greenish, striped chocolate; lip rose colour with yellow margin. (Fig. 118.)

Other Exhibits.

Baron Schröder (gr. Mr. Ballantine) showed spikes of the purple-blotched Odontoglossum Pescatorei Schröderianum, O. P. Veitchianum and O. Crispum Stevensii.

Lord Rothschild (gr. Mr. Hill) sent a spike of Phalænopsis amabilis Rimestadiana.

Geo. Singer, Esq., Coundon Court (gr. Mr. Collyer) showed hybrid Cypripediums.

J. Rutherford, Esq., M.P., Blackburn (gr. Mr. Lupton), sent Odontoglossum × Hallio-crispum.

C. J. Lucas, Esq. (gr. Mr. Duncan), sent Cypripedium × Lathamianum 'Warnham Court variety' and C. × 'Almos.'

W. M. Appleton, Esq., showed Cypripedium × Edithiæ and two others.

M. Chas. Vuysteke, Ghent, sent Odontoglossum × Vuylstekei and O. × loochristyense varieties.

M. Jules Hye de Crom, Ghent, sent Cypripedium × 'Madame Jules Hye.'

Messrs. Hugh Low staged a group.

ORCHID COMMITTEE, February 9, 1904.

MR. VEITCH in the Chair, and twenty-six members present.

AWARDS RECOMMENDED:—

Gold Medal.

To Messrs. Sander, St. Albans, for a very extensive group.

Silver Flora Medal.

To Norman Cookson, Esq., Oakwood, Wylam (gr. Mr. Chapman), for Odontoglossums.

To Messrs. Charlesworth, Bradford, for hybrids.

Silver Banksian Medal.

To G. F. Moore, Esq., Bourton-on-the-Water (gr. Mr. Page), for Cypripediums.

To Mr. Cypher, Cheltenham, for Dendrobiums and Cypripediums.

To Messrs. Hugh Low, for a group.

To Messrs. Williams, Holloway, for Cypripediums.

Award of Merit.

To Cypripedium × aureum 'Œdippe' (Sallieri Hyeanum x Spicerianum) (votes, unanimous), from Captain Holford, C.I.E., C.V.O., Westonbirt (gr. Mr. Alexander), and Messrs. Charlesworth. A fine hybrid; upper sepal dark rose with a green blotch at the base and white margin. Petals and lip yellow marked with purple.

To Cypripedium × aureum virginale (Sallieri Hyeanum × Spiceria [Spicerianum)]

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PL. DXV-DXVI

CYPRIPEDIUM X LEEANUM VEITCH VARIETATES

CYPRIPEDIUM DE M. LEE, VARIÉTÉS DIVERSES

CYPRIPEDIUM. Vide Lindenia, I. p. 17.

Cypripedium × Leeanum. Descript., vide Lindenia, III, p. 6I.

Cypripedium × Leannum VEITCH in Gard. Chron., n. ser. XXI, p. 50 (1884), XXIII, p. 277 (1885, — var. superbum); Man. Orchid. Pl., part. IV, p. 88 (1889). — L'Orchidoph., 1884, p. 55; 1885, pp. 2 et 238, cum tab. col.: 1886, p. 137; 1889, p. 85; 1891, p. 3. — PYNAERT in Rev. de l'Hort. Belg., XI, p. 231, fig. 34 (1885). — Gard. Chron., n. ser., XXV, p. 168 (1886); ser. 3, IV, p. 663 (1888, — var. maculatum), V, p. II (1889 — var, Maesereelianum). — WILLIAMS, Orch. Alb., V, tab 223 (1886); Orch. Grow. Man., edit 7, p. 275 (1894). — Lindenia, III, tab. 125 (1887). — WATSON AND BEAN, Orchids, p. 186, fig. 48 (1890). — PUCCI Cyprip., p. 134 (1891). — Reichenbachia, ser. 2, II, p. 19, tab. 57 (var. giganteum). — Gard. Mag., 1892, p. 48, cum ic. — Gard. and For., VI, p. 117 (1893, — var. ampliatum), — L. LIND., Les Orchid. exot., p. 712 (1894). — Journ. des Orch., VI, p. 381 (1896).

Cypripedium × Maesereelianum HORT.; Illustr. Hortic., 1889, p. 23, tab. 77

Cypripedium × Vallerandi HORT.; Lindenia, V, p. 100 (1889, — nomen tantum).

Cypripedium × Engelhardtae L. LIND. in Lindenia, VI, p. 93, tab. 285 (1890).

Paphiopedilum × Leeanum STEIN, Orchideenb., p. 474 (1892).

Cypripedium × Albertianum HORT. J. HYE; Rev. de l'Hort. Belg., XIX, p. 3 tab. I (1893). — Journ. des Orchid., III, p. 346 (1893).

[Paphiopedilum] P phiopedium × Albertianum, P. × Engelhardtae, P. × Leannum, P. × Maesereelianum et P. × Vallerandi (Valerandi) KERCH., Livre des Orchid., pp. 475, 478, 480, 481 et 484 (1894).

Cypripedium × Yvonnae HORT.; Illustr. Hort., XLII, p. 23, tab. 26 (1895). — Journ. des Orchid., VI, p. 382 (C. x Ivonnae, — 1896).

Que deviendra dans un certain nombre d'années l'étude de la famille des Orchidées, et spécialement celle de certains groupes, comme par example le genre Cypripedium, si non seulement on en introduit encore constamment des espèces et des variétés nouvelles, mais surtout si l'on continue à pratiquer quotidiennement les croisements les plus variés entre les formes déjà connues? La plupart des types primitifs que tout le monde s'accordait à considérer comme spécifiquement distincts, se trouveront reliés par tant d'intermédiares, qu'il deviendra impossible d'établir entre eux les lignes de démarcation bien précises, du moins en ce qui concerne les plantes cultivées.

Un exemple remarquable de ces variations presque indéfinies nous est fourni par le Cypripedium × Leannum, dont la splendide planche double ci-jointe reproduit quelques-unes des formes les plus remarquables qui ont flouri récemment dans les serres de L'HORTICULTURE INTERNATIONALE.

On sait que le C. Leannum, qui a déjà été décrit et figuré en 1887 dans la Lindenia (vol. III, pl. 125), est issu du croisement des C. insigne et C. Spicerianum, deux espèces certainement assez voisines, mais que tous les botanistes considèrent comme parfaitment distinctes. Pour faire mieux ressortir ce que chaque forme