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however, died before the plants were despatched to Europe, leaving 

 them to the care of another Englishman named Alabaster, at that 

 time in charge of the public gardens at Bangkok, but he falling ill, 

 they all perished. Alabaster subsequently procured more plants, 

 which he forwarded to M. Godefroy, and at the same time, or 

 shortly afterwards, he sent some plants to Kew. All these were collected 

 " on the cliff of a limestone island near the Bird's-Nest Islands of 

 Champon ; they grow facing the mainland west, and none on the 

 east side of the island ; some were gathered 16 feet above sea-level, 

 others were seen at 80 feet above sea-level, and at intermediate 

 heights/' * In this situation the plants are in the shade till about 

 10 a.m., from which hour till sunset they are fully exposed to the 

 glare of a tropical sun, the difference between the extreme day and night 

 temperature being very considerable. f As stated under Gypripedium 

 concolor, G. Godefroyce is intermediate between G. concolor and G. niveum, 

 and specifically unites them. As a horticultural plant it is a 

 beautiful acquisition; it has proved to be a very variable plant, 

 especially in the foliage, in the size of the flowers, and in the 

 spotting of their segments. 



O. Haynaldianum. 



Leaves ligulate, leathery, 10- — 15 inches long, 1^ — 2 inches broad, 



bidentate at the tip. Scapes 20— 30 inches long, 5 — 6 flowered. Bract 



half as long as the ovary. Flowers large, with spreading segments ; upper 



sepal oval, obtuse, folded at the mid-vein, the lower half with re volute 



margins, upper half whitish faintly tinted with rose, basal half pale 



yellowish green with large brown spots along the veins ; lower sepal 



broadly ovate, whitish with pale green veins ; petals linear-spathulate, 3 — 4. 



inches long, ciliate, twisted beyond the middle and recurved at the 



apex, the basal half yellowish green with S — 12 large brown spots that 



are chiefly marginal, the distal half pale dull purple ; lip helmet-shaped, 



pale green tinged with dull purple, the infolded lobes yellowish. Staminode 



oblong, with a tooth at the base, bilobed on the front side. 



Gypripedium Haynaldianum, Echb. Xen. Orch. II. p. 222 (1874). Id. III. p. 33, 

 t. 212. Gard. Chron. VII. (1877), p. 272. Bot. Mag. t. 6296. 



Introduced by us, in 1873, from the Philippine Islands, through 



M. Gustav Wallis, who had discovered it at San Isidro, near Manila. 



It is dedicated to Cardinal Haynald, Archbishop of Kaloesa, in 



Hungary, " a zealous botanist and an active promoter of science and 



* The Garden. XXVII. (1885), p. 342. t Godefroy 's Orchidophile, 1883, p. 830. 



