CYPRIPEDTUM. 77 



white spotted and stained with rose-purple, the sepals and petals with a 

 greenish stain at the base ; upper sepal orbicular ; lower sepal smaller, 

 ovate, concave ; petals slightly deflexed, broadly oblong, fringed with 

 minute blackish hairs ; lip inflated with contracted aperture. Staminode 

 pale rose with a green reticulation in the centre. 

 Cypripedhmi Aphrodite, supra. 



Raised by Seden at our nursery. This hybrid is one of the hand- 

 somest of the group in which we have placed it ; its foliage is scarcely 

 less striking than its flowers, and is the most ornamental yet seen in 

 the genus. 



0. apiculatum. 



C. barbatum x 0. villosum Boxalli. 

 Leaves faintly tesselated. Upper sepal light green, with broad, 

 blackish purple anastomosing veins and a whitish margin ; lower sepal 

 pale green with brown veins ; petals with a broad red-brown median 

 vein, the superior half brown-purple, the inferior half yellowish green, 

 with numerous small blackish spots ; lip yellow-brown, much paler 

 beneath. 



Cypripedium apiculatum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XXV. (1886), p. 617. 



Raised by Mr. D. 0. Drewett, of Riding, near Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



0. Arthurianum. 



C. insigne X 0. Fairieanum. 

 Upper sepal apple-green with a broad white apical margin, veins 

 brownish purple along which are numerous brown-purple spots ; lower 

 sepal paler with but few spots ; petals deflexed and recurved as in 

 Cypripedium Fairieanum, with ciliate and undulate margins, light yellow- 

 green, the veins of the superior half purplish brown, of the inferior 

 half lighter ; lip light yellow-green mottled and veined with brown. 

 Staminode buff-yellow with a bright green reticulation in the centre, 

 below which is a small glandular yellow boss. 



Cypripedium Arthurianum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. II. (1874), p. 676. Godefroy's 

 Orchidophile, 1887, p. 209. 



The only seedling obtained from the cross was raised at our Chelsea 

 Nursery ; this was dedicated by Professor Reichenbach to the late Mr. 

 Arthur Veitch. In this hybrid the influence of the pollen parent is 

 quite subordinate ; it is seen chiefly in the depressed, recurved petals, 

 and in the staminode, which is but a slight modification of that of 

 Cypripedium insigne; in every other organ the characters of seed parent 

 entirely predominate. C. Arthurianum is, nevertheless, one of the most 

 distinct hybrid Cypripedes yet raised ; this is particularly manifest in the 

 broad upper sepal, in which the apical margin is of the purest white, 

 and the spotting of the central area most distinct ; the colour of the 



