CYPRIPEDIUM. 81 



0. Charles Canham. 



G. villosum x C. superbiens. 



Leaves 6 — 9 inches long, faintly tesselated with light and dark green. 

 Flowers as large as those of G. villosum ; upper sepal whitish with a 

 dark purple mid-line, and longitudinal stripes that are hrown-purple at the 

 hase, passing into green upwards ; lower sepal whitish with green veins ; 

 petals ciliate, the mid-vein deep purple, the other veins yellow-brown, 

 with numerous dark purple spots arranged along them ; lip brown-purple 

 in front, paler beneath. Staminode nearly as in C. superbiens. 



Cypripedium Charles Canham, Eolfe in Gard. Chron. II. s. 3 (1887), p. 490. 



A splendid acquisition, of which Mr. Eolfe observes : " The parents 

 are both noble species, and a hybrid between them could scircely be 

 disappointing in any case, but in this one the resrdt even surpasses the 

 expectation." Although the flower of this hybrid is of the size and 

 general outline of that of Cypripedium villosum, the influence of the 

 pollen parent very decidedly predominates in the foliage, in the upper 

 sepal, and especially in the staminode which shows no appreciable 

 approach to the large and more elongated form of G. villosum. 



C. chloroneurum. 



Parentage doubtful ; supposed to be C. barbatum X G. venustum, or vice versa. 



Upper sepal green with a white margin, the mid-vein purple, the other 



veins of a deeper green than the ground colour ; lower sepal paler green 



than the upper one ; petals with a broad dark purple mid-vein, the 



superior half purplish brown with some blackish warts towards the 



base, the inferior half green ; lip greenish brown stained with purple 



in front, except the margin of the aperture, which is buff - yellow. 



Staminode pale green, mottled with deep green. 



Cypripedium chloroneurum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XIV. (1880), p. 525. Williams' 

 Orch. Alb. I. t. 37. 



Eaised by Mr. Eobert Warner, of Broomfield, near Chelmsford. Gypri- 

 pedmm chloroneurum, G. discolor, C. Meirax, C. melanoplitlialmum, and 

 G. politum, " a batch raised some few years since," * are believed to have 

 resulted from the same cross ; they are therefore properly but varieties 

 of one type. In all of them the influence of C. venustum strikingly 

 preponderates. 



0. concinnum. 



v C. villosum x G. purpurcdum, or vice versa. 



Upper sepal with reflexed lateral margins, central and basal area 

 purplish, apical area light green, lateral reflexed margins white, veins 

 close set, blackish purple ; lower sepal white with green veins ; petals 



* Williams' Orch. Alb. I. sub. t. 36. 



