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CYPR1PEDIUM. 



petals too is equal to that of the best C. insigne forms, while the 

 markings of the lip are quite characteristic. 



Cypripedium Arthurianum. 



0. Ashburtonise. 



G. barbatum x C. insigne. 



Upper sepal apple-green with brown veins and with a broad white 



apical margin ; lower sepal paler, sometimes with deeper green veins, 



sometimes with pale brown veins ; petals with ciliolate margins, reddish 



brown with brown veins, paler at the base where there are a few 



blackish warts ; lip reddish brown, paler beneath. Staminode buff-yellow, 



with green markings in the centre. 



Cypripedium Ashburtoniie, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1871, p. 1647. Kegel's Gartenjl. 

 J879, t. 976. C. obscurum, Gard. Chron. I. s. 3 (1887), p. 8. 



