284 THE DICTIONARY 
OF GARDENING, 
Cypripedium—continued. 
Cc. S. platyteenium (broad-bordered). l., dorsal sepal white, 
acre ne petals whitish outside, spotted and tinted 
yellow, deep crimson-purple at the tips, the inner surface white, 
blotched reddish-purple. Sarawak. (F. M. ser. ii. 414; G. C. 
1867, p. 1118; R. xX. O. ii. 161; W. S. O. iii. 14.) 
Fic. 296. 
FLOWER OF CYPRIPEDIUM ROTHSCHILDIANUM. 
C. tonquinense (Tonkin). A variety of C. concolor. 
C, tonsum (shorn). /., dorsal sepal whitish, with twenty-one 
green nerves, a small brown blotch on each border inside, and a 
green disk outside, the lower sepals half as long as the lip ; 
petals oblong-ligulate, acute, nearly free from ciliw#, green, 
washed with sepia, and spotted with dark brown ; lip greenish, 
the upper surface washed with sepia. J. rather narrow, marked 
asin C. Dayanum. Sumatra, 1883. (G. C. 1883, xx., p. 262.) 
ventricosum (big-bellied). A variety of C. macranthon. 
Cc. venustum Measuresianum (Measures’). jl. white and 
green. 1893. 
Cc. v. pardinum (leopard-marked). ., sepals and petals white, 
striped green, the petals also blotched dark chocolate; lip 
greenish-yellow, marked rose. 1887. Perhaps the finest, and 
certainly the largest-flowered, variety. (F. M.n.s., t. 51; G. C. 
1887, i., p. 382.) 
C. Victoriz-Mariz (Victoria Maria’s). ”. 3in. long; sepals 
green, the dorsal one streaked with red ; petals green, with broad 
purple margins and nerves, 2in. long; lip dull purple, green 
round the mouth, 2in. long, Zin. broad; racemes erect, many- 
flowered, scape 14ft. high. March. J. lft. long, l4in. to 2in. 
broad, emarginate. Sumatra, 1897. (B. M. 7573.) 
C. villosum. Of the numerous varieties of this species the 
following are all that call for description here. See Fig. 297. 
Cc. v. aureum (golden). jl. 6in. across; upper part of the 
dorsal sepal bright yellow, broadly margined with white. Moul- 
mein. A fine variety. 
C. v. Boxallii. See C. Boxallii. 
Cc. v. Gortoni (Gorton’s). fl. ofa purplish colour. 1893. 
Cc. v. Measuresianum toassires ) jl. having large, dark 
blotches, as in C. Boxallii atratum. 1893. 
C. virens (green). fl. having the sepals and petals of a deeper 
and brighter green than in C. javaniewm (to which this species 
is closely allied); petals spreading, reflexed beyond the middle; 
lip of a deeper brown and glossier. North Borneo, 1858. 
(R. X. O. ii., t. 162.) Syn. C. javanicum virens. 
C. Volonteanum (Volonte’s). #. more brilliantly coloured and 
larger in all their parts. J. shorter, narrower, and more rigid. 
Cypripedium—continued. 
Otherwise closely resembling C. Hookerw. Borneo, 1890. (G. C. 
1890, viii., p. 66, under name of C. Hookere Volonteanum.) The 
form giganteum has flowers twice as large as in the type. 
1893. (J. H. 1893, p. 27, f. 4.) 
C. Warnerianum (Warner's). A form of C. barbatum. 
C. Wolterianum (Wolter’s). 7. like those of C. Lowii (which the 
plant resembles in general appearance), but differing principally 
in the smaller inferior sepal, in the colour of the basal part of the 
petals, in the entirely different staminode, and in their smooth- 
ness. Habitat not recorded, 1895. 
Hybrids. The following is a list of Cypripedium and 
Selenipediam hybrids up to date, together with their 
recorded parentage as far as ascertainable. 
Abas Stoneii and villosum (Veitch). 
Acis Lawrenceanum and insigne Maulei 
(Veitch). 
ACTAUG sen shah oes ioie re Leeanum and insigne Sandere 
(Veitch). 
FO 9 ty 2) ) Curtisit and Rothschildianum 
(Sander). 
Adonis ..............-. hirsutissimum and Curtisii (Ingram). 
Adrastus ... Leeanum and Boxallii (Veitch). 
Molus .. philippinense and villosum (Veitch). 
Hsculapius Lawrenceanum and Harrisianum 
(R. L Measures). 
it and insigne (Veitch). 
Roezlii and Sedenii. 
Leeanum superbum and cenanthum 
superbum (Sander). 
Schlimii and Sedenii (Sander). 
Syn. Lathamianum. 
Leeanum var. 
Schlimii and Dominii (Veitch). 
AG30n.... 
Ainsworthii ...... 
A. J. Harrington ...... 
albanensiz .... 
Albert Hye .. 
Albertianum .... 
albo-purpureum 
Aleides se insigne and hirsutissimum (Sander). 
Alcides Cleo..........-- insigne Chantinit and hirsutissimum 
(Graves). 
SLE CUYD = etre Sian etate peice barbatum Crossti and Spicerianum 
(Veitch). 
AUPP OM SE oiadsperclen caste philippinense and venustum (Drewett). 
Alfred Blew.... 
Alfred Bleu.... ... 
Alfred Hollington...... 
ciliolare and insigne Chantinii (Bleu). 
Crossianum and villosum (Bleu). 
ciliolare and philippinense (Holling- 
ton). 
Harrisianum © vivicans 
ianum (Sander). 
Spicerianum and Stoneii (Drewett). 
Harrisianum and insigne (Lebeuf). 
Spicerianum and Curtisii (Pitcher). 
A'fred Truffaut........ and Spicer 
ATLAS cee ome ani Nes eter 
Alice Gayot.. 
Allanianum 
Allanianum superbum Spicerianum and Curtisii (R. L 
Measures). 
allertionense .......... villosum and bellatulum (Tate). 
Qlmogsnics Al. villosum aureum and insigne (Ebner). 
QUNUM. core pieere step sretsis barbatum and Lawrenceanum (Cook- 
son). 
ALD er cranes Spicerianum and Arthurianum pul- 
chellum (Veitch). 
Fic. 297. FLOWER OF CYPRIPEDIUM VILLOSUM. 
