56 THE WOODLANDS ORCHIDS 



Dreivetfs variety. — Dorsal white, with a green base and 

 huge blotches of red-brown ; greenish petals lined with the 

 same ; ruddy greenish slipper. 



Eximium. — A natural hybrid doubtless, though we cannot 

 guess what its other parent may be ; it came among a lot of 

 the ordinary form. Very small. The funny little dorsal 

 is yellow, spotted throughout with red. The small petals 

 have a crimson tinge, much darker in the upper length. 

 Slipper dull crimson ; the yellow shield of the column is 

 very conspicuous on that ground. 



Hector. — The dorsal is pale grass-green, with a white 

 crest and margin and large chestnut spots ; petals and slipper 

 reddish ochre. 



Punctatum is a title very commonly bestowed when the 

 usual spots run together, making small blotches, arranged in 

 lines ; often the petals have a white margin, more or less 

 broad, which shows them off. 



Here also I should mention the famous Cyp. ins. Sanderae, 

 though, as a matter of fact, it is lodged elsewhere. The 

 story of this wonderful orchid has often been told, but not 

 every one has heard it. I may be allowed to quote my own 

 version, published in About Orchids — a Chat (Chapman and 

 Hall, 1893). 'Among a great number of Cypripedium 

 insigne received at St. Albans, and " established " there, Mr. 

 Sander noted one presently of which the flower-stalk was 

 yellow instead of brown, as is usual. Sharp eyes are a 

 valuable item of the orchid-growers' stock-in-trade, for the 

 smallest peculiarity among such "sportive" objects should 

 not be neglected. Carefully he put the yellow-stalk aside. 

 In due course the flower opened and proved to be all golden. 

 Mr. Sander cut his plant in two, sold half for seventy-five 

 guineas at Protheroe's auction rooms, and the other half to 

 Mr. R. H. Measures. One of the purchasers divided his 

 plant and sold two bits at a hundred guineas each. Another 



