CYPRIPEDIUM. 



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brown-purple beneath. Scapes 1 — 3 inches high, pale green spotted 

 ■with purple, tonientose, 1 — 2 flowered. Bract one-third as long as the 

 ovary. Flowers 2 — 1\ inches across vertically, French-white, sometimes 

 pale yellow, spotted with magenta-purple and obscurely pubescent ; upper 

 sepal broadly ovate or sub-orbicular, keeled behind ; lower sepal elliptic- 

 oblong, much smaller; petals elliptic-oblong, broad and deflexed as in 

 Cypripedium concolor ; lip sub-cylindric, minutely spotted. Staminode 

 roundish-oblong, minutely spotted like the lip, and with a yellowish 

 stain hi the centre. 



Cypripedium Godefroyce, Orchidophile 1883, p. 830, icou. xyl. Fl. and Pomol. 

 1884, p. 37. The Garden, XXVII. (1885), t. 492. Williams' Orch. Alb. IV. t. 177. 

 Gard. Chron. XXIII. (1885), p. 49, icon. xyl. Bot. Mag. t. 6876. 



Cypripedium Godefroy.T. 



The merit of introducing this beautiful Cypripede is due to M. 

 Godefroy, of Argenteuil, near Paris, to whom it became known in 

 1876 while at Singapore, on his return home from Cochin China. 

 It had been discovered a short time previously by an Englishman 

 named Murton, formerly an employe in the Eoyal Gardens at Kew. 

 of whom M. Godefroy purchased the plants he had collected. Murton, 



