80 CYPRIPEDIUM. 



purple spots, apical portion purplish rose ; lip with a lustrous surface, 

 purplish brown, the infolded lobes purplish. Staminode white and brown. 



Cypripedium calanthum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XIV. (1880), p. 652. 

 Eaised by Seden at our nursery. 



C caligare.* 



C. venustum x G. Dayanum. 

 " Upper sepal whitish with green veins ; lower sepal also whitish, 

 with fewer green veins; petals with a dark purple median-vein on 

 which are a few black spots at the base, superior half purple with 

 deeper veins and some blackish warts at the margin, inferior half 

 whitish with green veins ; lip brownish, the infolded lobes spotted with 

 shining warts." 



Cypripedium caligare, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. III. s. 3 (1888), p. 264. 

 Eaised by Mr. D. 0. Drewett, of Siding, Mill-on-Tyne. 



0. calophyllum. 



O. barbatum X C. venustum. 



Upper sepal white with green veins ; lower sepal similar with the 

 veins paler ; basal portion of petals light green with a few blackish 

 warts along the brown-purple mid-vein and at each margin, apical 

 portion rose-purple ; lip brownish purple. Staminode green with some 

 deep purple spots on the front side. 



Cypripedium calophyllum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XV. (1881), p. 169. 



" One of the oldest artificial hybrids, having been gained at the Eoyal 

 Exotic Nursery a long time ago. Accidentally it was never described, 

 and now it comes from a second source — Mr. B. S. "Williams." Echb. 

 in Gard. Chron., loc. tit. supra. 



C. Carrierei.* 



C. superbiens X 0. venustum. 



" Upper sepal white with green veins ; (lower sepal not described) ; 

 basal portion of petals pale green with deeper green veins and some 

 blackish warts placed chiefly along the mid-vein, apical portion purplish 

 red with a few scattered blackish warts ; lip greenish stained with 

 purple, veins deep green, the infolded lobes spotted with purple warts. 

 Staminode green." 



Cypripedium Carrierei, Moniteur d'Horticulture, March 10th, 1887. 



Eaised by M. Bailee at the Etabliesement de la Muette, Paris. 



* Not seen by us. 



