CORRECTIONS

Paph. Boltonii is a synonym of Paph. Muriel Hollington.
Josep M. Puig Vwerdura has kindly drawn the registrarﾕs attention to a study by Kohji Karasawa (1981), A review of chromosome numbers in some hybrids of Paphiopedilum, Bull. Hiroshima Bot. Gard. 4: 1-8, which concluded that the parentage of Paph. Boltonii, listed in the register as of unknown parentage, was Paph. insigne x Paph. niveum. By coincidence, other records of this grex came to light in Gard. Chron. 46: 364, 407 (1909); Gard. Mag. 1909: 947; Journ. of Hort. 59: 529, f. (1909); and Kew Bull. 1909(App. 3): 65, which noted, 'A garden hybrid probably between Paph. insigne 'Sanderae' and Paph. niveum. The flowers are wax-like and of the purest white, with a few minute dark spots on the lower part of the dorsal sepal.' As a result, Paph. Boltonii (1909) is now treated as a synonym of Paph. Muriel Hollington (1891). However, parentage of the greges registered with Paph. Boltonii as a parent have not been changed.
Paphiopedilum Goliath has for some time been recorded as of unknown parentage in the Register. However, as Josep M. Puig Vwerdura recently pointed out to the registrar, the Hermans index of RHS Orchid Awards 1841-2002 CD-ROM states that Paph. Goliath received an AM/RHS on 2 Dec 1913 with the recorded parentage, Paph. insigne 'Harefield Hall' x Paph. Amy Moore, see OR.22: 24. Further research has revealed that the epithet Amy Moore appears in the literature both as a grex and also as a cultivar of Paph. Troilus. Therefore the register entry for Paph. Goliath has been changed to show the parentage Paph. insigne 'Harefield Hall' x Paph. Troilus 'Amy Moore', in agreement with OR. 28: 22 (1920). Furthermore, the register contains the note, ﾔVery distinct from Paph. Dreadnought which has the same parentageﾕ. Because of this comment, the parentage of the greges listed with Paph. Goliath as a parent has not been changed.
Paphiopedilum Ruby Slippers was registered with the incorrect parentage by error. Please change the pollen parent to read Paph. Virgo instead of Sandra Lee gx, see Orch. Rev. Suppl. 110(1246): 59 (July 2002).

REGISTRARﾕS NOTES

Establishment of Groups
Since the early days of orchid hybridisation the problem of how to name several hybrids that are between the same species but involve different infra specific parents, that are considered significant, has been a source of difficulty. See for example the note above under Vanda Groveﾕs Dream and V. Peregrino Lorenzo for a recent example.
One possibility, here used as a working hypothesis, is the establishment of Groups based on description, within a grex based on parentage, an idea which has met with acceptance from ICNCP commissioners. Descriptions vary in detail style and quality as they are provided by the originators.

Paph. Calloso-barbatum gx Norman Atkinson Gp derived from Paph. barbatum var. nigritum ﾔDyak Warriorﾕ x Paph. callosum var. viniferum ﾔJacﾕ. Raised by Agnes Atkinson, made 12 Dec 1998, f. fl. 16 Nov 2004. Description: ﾔDorsal sepal green, red and white. Petals red and green; pouch red; staminode light red.ﾕ

Paph. Noriﾕs Bell gx Aoinokimi Gp derived from Paph. bellatulum x Paph. Norito Hasegawa. Raised by Toshinori Tanaka, made 10 Apr 1998, f. fl. 20 Dec 2004. Description: ﾔNatural spread of flower 11 cm, petal width 4.6 cm. Petals and sepals slightly pointed at top. Dorsal sepal, ventral sepal, petals and pouch are yellowish creamy green. The dorsal sepal is slightly darker in colour. Purple brown spots irregularly cover the petals and sepals, more densely towards the centre and more scattered towards the periphery. Spots are absent from the pouch interior, the interior is heavily spotted with tiny purple brown dots. The staminode is white with dark purple red on the lower half.ﾕ
The original Noriﾕs Bell grex was derived from Paph. bellatulum ﾔAlbumﾕ x Paph. Norito Hasegawa.

Paph. Uri Baruk gx Akitsuhime Gp derived from Paph. Norito Hasegawa x Paph . godefroyae ﾔAng-Thongﾕ. Raised by Toshinori Tanaka, made 15 Apr 1999, f. fl. 21 Nov 2004. Description: ﾔFlower, natural spread 9.5 cm, petal width 5 cm. Dorsal sepal is pointed a little bit at he top, pale creamy green, a little darker than other tepals. Ventral sepal, petals and pouch pale creamy green, petals rounded at the top. Sepals with very tiny purple-brown spots all over, becoming more dense towards the centre. Pouch without spots on exterior, with tiny purple brown spots increasing heavily towards the base and inside. Staminode white with lower half dark purple red.

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