CYPRIPEDIUM. 



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the apical margin bent forwards, white except at the fold where there is 



a crimson -purple band, and at the base where there is a large green 



blotch speckled with dull red ; lower sepal broadly ovate, acute, greenish 



white ; petals ligulate, cleflexed and curved forwards, undulate at the 



margins, yellowish green spotted with dull red and with a reddish 



crimson mid-line ; lip somewhat bell-shaped, with rounded auricles 



brown tinged with crimson. Staminode sub-orbicular, purplish-crimson 



margined with white. 



Cypripedium Spicerianum. Rchb. in lit. ad. Veitch, 1879. Gard. Chron.XII. (1880) 

 p. 40, icon. xyl. Id, Rchb. p. 363. Bot. Mag. t. 6490. Illus. hort.XXX. t 473 

 The Garden, XXIII. (1883), t. 378. Williams' Orch. Alb. III. t. 119. Be'lq ' hort 

 XXXIII. (1883), p. 289. 



Cypripedium Spicerianum. 



This beautiful species first became known to us in the autumn of 

 1878, when we received a flower from Mr. Herbert Spicer, of the 

 Woodlands, near Godalming. The sender could give no information 

 respecting the origin of the plant from which the flower had been 

 gathered further than that he had received it and some others from 

 India, amongst a mixed collection of orchids. Arrangements were 

 made by which a portion of the Cypripedium plants passed into our 



