the genus. In the type species the leaves are about 9 inches long, and bright green 
in colour. The scapes about the same height, purple, and rather downy. Flowers 
are produced singly. The dorsal sepal is large, oval in shape, the apex being bent 
forward. It is apple-green with dark purplish spots below, and has a varying 
white margin, the apex of the sepal being pure white. The petals are broad, un- 
dulate and spreading—pale-green in colour, tinged with brown to a varying de- 
gree, and with purple longitudinal lines. The pouch is green and brown, being 
paler near the mouth. It flowers in Autumn and early Winter, the flowers lasting 
up to a month or five weeks. There are nearly fifty named varieties which differ 
from the type in varying degrees. The best of these are:— 
Var. insigne albo-marginatum. Flowers yellowish—dorsal petal with white margin 
all round and without the spots found in the type. 
Insigne Chantini. (Syn.: insigne punctato violaceum). Dorsal sepal pure white 
on the upper half and spotted with rich purple; petals have light yellow veins. 
Pouch is reddish-brown. 
Insigne Harefield Hall. Very large flowers, the characteristic spots being much 
larger than in the type. 
Insigne Sanderae. Flowers are a bright yellow, tinged with light green at the 
bases of the sepals and petals, and with a white margin at the apex of the dorsal 
sepal with a few brown dots. 
Most of the varieties are little different from the type. Imstgne (and most of its 
varieties) grows freely in an ordinary bushhouse right from Sydney northwards. 
One of the loveliest things I remember was a visit to the bushhouse at the Sydney 
Botanical Gardens, when I saw some hundreds of Cypripedium insigne growing 
in the ground in masses here and. there and covered with blossoms. 
The same conditions as to watering as already given here to other species apply 
equally to the insigne group—ample in the warmer weather—mere keeping of 
the compost slightly damp in Winter. 
CYPRIPEDIUM JAVANICUM. Native of Java. 
A mottle-leaved variety of the second group. Leaves about six inches long by 
about 1} inches wide, pointed, dark green, mottled with greyish-green. Scape 6 
to 8 inches tall, carrying a single bloom. Blooms smallish but pretty. Dorsal 
sepal broad and short, pale green with the apex white, and generally a white mar- 
gin. Petals green, tipped with dark purple, and with a number of small, black 
warts. Pouch green, tinged with brown and veined darker green. 
This species will grow in a glasshouse in Sydney and the colder localities. In 
Brisbane it does very well under ordinary greenhouse conditions. It likes plenty 
of water for ten months of the year, but in the coldest part of the Winter the 
compost should be kept only sufficiently damp to prevent deterioration. 
Flowers in Winter, and the blooms last five or six weeks, 
CYPRIPEDIUM LAWRENCEANUM. Native of Borneo. 
A very handsome species belonging to the first group. Leaves 9 to 11 inches long 
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