CYPRIPEDIUM INSIGNE S5 



continued in lines of spots upwards. The petals are scored 

 with the same colour. 



Measuresiae. — Big, with a grand dorsal, pale grass-green 

 below, broadly whitening as it swells. Petals the same green, 

 with a dark midrib and fainter lines. Slipper yellow. 



Ron a is an example of the common type in its utmost 

 perfection — large, symmetrical, its green tinge the liveliest 

 possible, its white both snowy and broad, and its spots so 

 vigorously imprinted that they rise above the surface like 

 splashes of solid chocolate. 



Majesticum is another of the same class, but distinguished 

 by the enormous size of its dorsal. 



Dorothy. — Dorsal greenish yellow, with faint spots of 

 chestnut and a broad white margin. Petals and slipper the 

 same greenish-yellow tone. 



R. H. Measures. — For size as for colour this variety is 

 astonishing. Its gigantic dorsal is white, prettily stained at 

 base with pale green, in which are enormous red spots, 

 irregularly set. Petals tawny greenish, with lines and dots 

 of red. The slipper matches. 



Harefield Hall variety resembles this, but smaller. The 

 great spots of the dorsal are more crimson, the petals and 

 slipper a darker hue. 



Frederico. — Within a broad white outline the dorsal is 

 all yellow, heavily spotted and splashed with chestnut. The 

 reddish tawny petals are lined and spotted with chestnut, and 

 the tawny slipper shows a chestnut network. 



Corrugatum. — The name refers to a peculiarity unique 

 and inexplicable. The slipper, so smooth in every other case, 

 has a strong breastbone, so to say, and five projecting ribs 

 on either side, arching round diagonally from the back — pale 

 brown on a darker ground. The dorsal is all yellow, spotted 

 with brown, but the crest overhangs, showing its white 

 underside. 



