HORTUS VEITCHII 



lobes spotted with purple ; the petals white with green lines and rose- 

 tinted drooping tail-like tips. 



CYPEIPEDIUM x CEBON. 



Jour, of Hort. 1892, vol. xxiv. p. 205, fig. 31; Gard. Chron. 1891, vol. ix. p. 214 

 (Report of R.H.S. Orchid Committee). 



Eaised from Cypripedium x cenanthum superbum and C. Harrisianum, 

 having fine hybrids for parents ; the result is disappointing. 



CYPEIPEDIUM x CEETHUS. 



Gard. Chron. 1892, vol. xii. p. 622 (Report of R.H.S. Orchid Committee); Orchid 

 Review, 1893, vol. i. p. 359. 



Eaised from Cypripedium Spicerianun crossed with the pollen of C. 

 Argus. 



The upper sepal is white-bordered, with black dots about the surface, 

 the petals yellowish-green, also black-spotted, and the lip coppery green 

 with a rosy suffusion round the orifice. 



CYPEIPEDIUM (SELENIPEDIUM) x DOMINIANUM, Bchb. f. 



Rchb. f . in Gard. Chron. 1870, p. 1181 ; PL Mag. 1870, t. 499 ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. 

 PL pt. iv. p. 103, fig. opposite; The Garden, 1891, vol. xxxix. p. 412, pi. 803; 

 TOrchidophile, 1882, pp. 452, 453, fig. 



Eaised by John Dominy at Chelsea from Cypripedium (Selenipedium) 

 caricinum and C. caudatum, and named by Professor Eeichenbach in 

 compliment to him. This, the first hybrid raised among the Selenipedia, 

 is still one of the most admired of the group. 



CYPEIPEDIUM (SELENIPEDIUM) x DOMINIANUM, 

 var. CLYMENE. 



Orchid Review, 1894, vol. ii. p. 160; Gard. Chron. 1893, vol. xiii. p. 456 (Report of 



R.H.S. Orchid Committee). 



A variety of the preceding having pale coloured flowers. It was raised 

 by Seden from C. (Selenipedium) caricinum and C. caudatum Wallisii. 



CYPEIPEDIUM x DEUEYO-HOOKEEJE. 



Gard. Chron. 1896, vol. xix. p. 530 (Report of R.H.S. Orchid Committee); Diet. Ic. des 

 Orchidees, Cypripedium hybr. pi. 39. 



The parentage of this seedling is expressed by the name. 



The flowers are of wax-like substance and singular in colour ; the dorsal 

 sepal green passing to white at the border ; the petals clear green strongly 

 tinted with rose-lilac passing to white at the tips with a strong median line 

 of purple ; the lip is yellowish-green, tinted and veined with rose. 



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