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art, and whose name will ever be honourably connected with the 

 development of Hungary." 



As a species Gi/pripedium Haynaldianum is comparable with 

 G. Lowii, for which it might be mistaken on superficial glance, but 

 from which it is distinguished chiefly by its longer (nearly 

 oblong) differently coloured staminode, the tooth at the base of 

 which is less prominent and destitute of the hairy appendage it 

 has in G. Lowii; by its broader and differently coloured sepals, 

 especially the upper one, which is conspicuously spotted; by the 

 larger spots on the basal half of the petals; by the more prominent 

 infolded lobes of the lip, and by its larger and more leathery 

 leaves. As a horticultural plant it forms noble specimens which, 

 as seen in the collections of Sir Trevor Lawrence and Baron 

 Schroeder, furnished with numerous scapes, each bearing 5 — 6 

 flowers, are among the most striking objects in the orchid house 

 during its flowering season, winch is usually from January to 

 March. 



O. hirsutissimum. 



Leaves linear-oblong, acute, 9 — 12 or more inches long, of a uniform 

 green colour. Scapes about a foot high, usually green, and clothed with 

 dark purple hairs as are the small bract, ovary, and back of the flower, 

 Flowers about 4 inches across vertically, with all the segments ciliated ; 

 upper sepal broadly cordate, keeled behind, the central and basal 

 area densely spotted with blackish purple, the spots being often 

 confluent, the broad marginal area deeper or paler green ; lower sepal 

 smaller, ovate, pale green with some purplish markings along the 

 veins ; petals spreading horizontally, broadly spathulate, slightly twisted, 

 with the margins crisped and undulated along the basal half, the. 

 narrower basal part green blotched and spotted with deep purple and 

 studded with numerous blackish hairs, the dilated apical part bright 

 violet-purple ; lip prominent, helmet-shaped, dull green stained with 

 brownish purple and dotted with minute blackish warts. Staminode 

 nearly square, green with two white spots near the basal edge. 



Cypripedium hirsutissimum, Lindl. MS. fide Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4990 (1857) 

 Warner's Sd. Orch. I. t. 15 (1862—65). Belg. hort. VII. p. 353 (1857). Illus. hort". 

 IV. misc. 67. Rchb. Xen. Orch. II. p. 107, t. 132. Van Houtte's Fl. des Serves 

 XIV. t. 1430 (1861). 



Gypripedium hirsutissimum and G. Fairieanum, two of the most 

 remarkable Indian Cypripedes, were introduced to British gardens 

 about the year 1857, but nothing whatever was then known of 



