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Cypripedium continued. 



C. vennstmn (handsome).* JL medium size, solitary; sepals and 

 petals greenish-white or pink, striped with bright green, the latter 

 fringed in a somewhat remarkable manner ; lip yellowish-green. 

 Winter. I. short, dark bluish-green above, curiously mottled and 

 blotched with pale green, whilst the under side is pale purple. 

 Nepaul, 1816. Cool-house species. (B. R. 788.) 



CYBJUiA (named after Dominico Cyrillo, M.D., a 

 professor of botany at Naples, and author of " Collectio 

 Plantarum Bariorum Begni NeapoL" 1788, "Tabula 

 Botanic," 1790 ; he died in 1799). ORD. Cyrtlfeo. A 

 small genus, containing two or three species (in reality 

 perhaps forms of one) of greenhouse evergreen shrubs, 

 natives of the southern parts of North America, West 

 Indies, and Brazil. They thrive in a compost of sandy 

 loam and peat. Cuttings root readily, placed in sand, 

 under glass, with a small amount of bottom heat. 

 C. antlllana (Antilles). JL white. July. A. 6ft Antilles, 182*. 

 C. racemiflora (raceme-flowered). fL white, disposed in slender 

 racemose spikes; corolla stellate, small, stiffish. June to 

 August. L oboTate-oblong, shortly stalked, k. 6ft Southern 



CY&IIiLILSk. A small order of evergreen shrubs or 

 trees, differing from Ericaeeca in their free petals and in 

 the anthers opening in slits. Flowers usually racemose. 

 Leaves undivided, eistipulate. The three genera are : 

 Cliftonia, Costcea, and Cyriila. There are about eight 

 species, all confined to warmer parts of the New World. 



CYBTA. A synonym of Styrax (which tee). 



FIG. 597. CTTRIPEDIUM SPKCTABILE. 



rt. TCrnixitun (glossy).* A hybrid raised between C. Argy 

 and C viOosvm. JL 4m. or 5in. across solitary, on a stout hairy 

 scape 'lit high ; in shape, they are nearest to C. viUotum, with 

 the petals longer, narrower, and less deflexed; in colour, they 

 oresent a remarkable combination of ochraceous brown, crimson, 

 Sdjreen, with fainter spots on the petals than in C. Aryus and 

 with the glossy Tarnish*! surface of C. vilfMiim. Of robust habit, 

 the leaves being as law as those of C. mllotum, with the nn 

 glyphic markings of C. Argus. 



5. vexUlarlum (standard).* A very handsome cross between 

 C ' Fairieanum and C. barbatvm, the flowers being exactly inter- 

 medfate, and combining, in a marked degree, the beauties of both 

 parents. Sepals white, tinged with pale green at the base, ami 

 Streaked and shaded throughout with soft purple ; petals deflected 



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ked and shaded throughout with soft purpe ; peas eece 

 purple, slightly shaded with green ; pouch pale brown tinged 

 with yellowish-green, and veined with pale green. L pale green, 

 blotched with a darker shade of the same colour Tery rare. 



blotched with a arer sae o e 



(O. C. n. s., xiii. 781, under the name of C. teUigervm.) 



O. vlUosnm (villous).* JL solitary, often measuring 5in. across. 

 and having a fine glossy appearance over their w , h <> le . !nirfa< ; e ;. 

 which is orange-redfintennixed with light green and dark purple, 

 lip large, protruding, bright light brown. May. I light green, 

 freckled on the lower part with dark spots, h. 1ft India. 

 Stove. (L H. 1857, 126.) 

 The following hybrids are as yet very rare In estivation : .4mi 



vorthii, Arthurianum, catanthvm, calophyUum f* 1 * 1 ?' 

 Xeirax, melarwvhthalmum, patent, 

 , nperctlwe, Snnu.n W 



end te 



, ruran, 

 um, marmorophyUum, 

 m: porphyro^ilum, pycnopt 

 etteUatum. 



Fio. See. FLOWKK AMD LEAF OF CTPRIPIDIDM SPKCTABILE. 



