HORTUS VEITCHII 



CYPEIPEDIUM (PAPHIOPBDILUM) NIVEUM, Bchb. /. 



Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1869, p. 1038 ; id. 1883, vol. xix. p. 16, fig. ; Bot. Mag. 

 t. 5922 ; The Garden, 1876, vol. ix. t. 23 ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. iv. p. 39, 

 fig. ; Orchid Review, 1903, vol. xi. p. 273, fig. 44. 



The first appearance of Cypripedium niveum was a surprise. In 1868 

 we received from Moulmein a consignment of plants of a Cypripedium, 

 supposed to be C. concolor, but which, on flowering in the spring of the 

 following year, proved to be the very beautiful white species now known 

 as C. niveum. 



It is not a native of Moulmein, but of the Tambilan Islands, situate 

 midway between Singapore and Sarawak and the Langkawi Islands, 

 a few miles north of Penang, from which locality our plants were 

 presumably obtained. 



CYPEIPEDIUM (PAPHIOPEDILUM) PHILIPPINENSE, Bchb. 



Syns. C. Icevigatum, Batem. 



Bot. Mag. t. 5508 ; Fl. des Serres, tt. 1760-1761; La Belg. Hort. 1867, t. 6; Gard. Chron. 

 1865, p. 914; Rev. Hort. Beige, 1881, p. 121; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. iv. 

 p. 43, fig. 



This species, discovered by the late John Gould Veitch in the Philippine 

 Islands and by him sent to Chelsea in 1861, bloomed for the first time in 

 March 1865. 



It was found established on the roots of Vanda Batemanni, to obtain 

 which was the object of the voyage, and for which the traveller long 

 sought in vain, but once happily running the boat ashore in a bay of 

 a small island, he was delighted and astonished to find the neighbouring 

 rocks covered with the plant of which he was in quest. 



CYPEIPEDIUM (PAPHIOPEDILUM) SUPEEBIENS, Echb. f. 



Fl. des Serres, 1861, vol. xiv. p. 161, t. 1453 ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. iv. p. 51, fig. 



Only two plants of this species have ever been introduced, and all now 

 growing in orchid collections have been derived from the two originally 

 imported. 



Messrs. Eollison introduced the first plant either from Java or Assam, 

 and sold it in 1855 to Consul Schiller of Hamburg. 



The second plant appeared in an importation of Cypripedium barbatum 

 collected in 1857 by Thomas Lobb on Mount Ophir, near the southern 

 extremity of the Malay Peninsula. 



CYPEIPEDIUM TIBETICUM, King. 

 Orchid Review, 1905, vol. xiii. p. 194. 



A hardy species introduced from Western China through Wilson. 

 The flowers resemble those of the Siberian Cypripedium macranthon 

 but are larger ; the sepals and petals have numerous broad blackish-purple 



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