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bluntly acute, the edges slightly wavy and ciliate, purplish 

 tinged with green, and furnished with a few warts ; and the 

 lip is large, light brown veined and tinged with green. It is 

 a summer-flowering plant, and at present is rare. — Garden 

 hybrid. 



¥lG.—Veitch, Cat., 1879, 10, with fig. ; Florist and Pom., 1880, 13, with 

 fig. ; Gard. Chron., N.S., xix. 781, fig. 135 (marked selligerum by error) ; 

 Garden, v. 103, with fig. 



C. villosum, Lmdley. — A desirable species of the acau- 

 lesccnt group. The leaves are of a light green colour, freckled 

 on the lower exterior part with 

 dark spots. The scapes are vil- 

 lose, about a foot high, producing 

 solitary flowers, often measuring 

 five inches across, and having a 

 fine glossy appearance over their §^. 

 whole surface, which is orange ^-^^^ 

 red intermixed with light green 

 and dark purple, the dorsal sepal 

 being green. It blossoms during 

 April and May, and continues 

 from six to eight weeks in per- 

 fection. This makes a fine sub- cypripedium villosum. 

 ject for exhibition, on account of 



its distinct colour, and its long continuance in flower. The 

 plant succeeds well in the cool house with the Odontoglossums, 

 &c. — Moulmei7i and Tonghoo Mountains, Bhotan. 



YlQ.— Warner, Sel. Orch. PI, ii. t. 30 ; Pescatorea, t. 48 ; Flore des 

 Serres, t. 1475 ; III. Hort., t. 126 ; Florist and Pom., 1870, 211, with fig. ; 

 Id., 1882, 35, with fig. ; Garden, iii. 415, with fig. 



C, villosuin aureum, Williams. — A remarkably distinct 

 and fine variety. The flowers are six inches across, and have 

 the upper part of the dorsal sepal bright yellow, broadly 

 margined with white. — Moulmein. 



C. "Wallisii, Rchh. f. — A very distinct and beautiful plant 

 belonging to the C. caudatum section. The leaves are ligulate, 

 acute, and leathery, and the stems three to five-flowered. 

 The sepals are elongate ovate, pale green distinctly striped 

 over their entire surface with bright green, and having a few 

 green spots in the centre ; the petals are about eight inches 

 long, broadish for about two inches at the base, and then 

 passing into a very narrow tail, white strongly veined with 



