82 CYPRIPEDIUM. 



depressed, the mid-vein deep purple, superior half purplish brown with 

 green veins, inferior half paler ; lip dull pale purple. Starninode 

 brownish with green centre. 



Eaised by Mr. J. C. Bowring, of Forest Farm, near Windsor, to whom 

 the authority for the name is unknown. 



0. Orossianum. 



C. insigne X G. venustum. 



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

 deeper green with some blackish brown spots along them towards the 

 base ; lower sepal greenish white with green veins ; petals yellowish 

 brown, except the pale green base where there are some brown spots, 

 the mid vein red-brown, the other veins paler, greenish brown; lip 

 greenish brown, with distinct veinings and reticulations ; infolded lobes 

 and starninode buff-yellow. 



Cypripedium Crossianum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1873, p. 877. 



Raised by the late Mr. Cross, gardener to Louisa Lady Ashburton, at 

 Melchet Court, near Romsey. The influence of the pollen parent is less 

 marked in this hybrid than in any of the members of the group of which it is 

 the type ; compared with them the flowers are larger, with the prevailing 

 green colour of Cypripedium venustum much subdued ; the upper sepal is 

 more rotund and scarcely acuminate, and the petals are more broadly 

 spathulate. To C. Crossianum must be referred C. amandum (Gard. 

 Chron. I. s. 3 (1887), p. 174), which we have not seen, but which 

 has been obtained by Mr. Bowring, of Forest Farm, near Windsor, from 

 the same cross. From the published description it would seem to differ 

 but very little from C. Crossianum. 



0. delicatulum.* 



C. Dayanum x C. barbatum Crossii ( Warner ianum). 



" Upper sepal white with green veins and with a purplish stain near 



each lateral margin ; lower sepal white with green veins ; petals deflexed, 



brownish purple with a deep purple mid-vein, and with some spots at the 



base on the superior side of it, the other veins green ; " (lip not described). 



Cypripedium delicatulum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. II. s. 3 (1887), p. 552. 



Raised by Mr. D. 0. Drewett, of Riding, Mill-on-Tyne. This must be 

 near Cypripedium Swanianum raised from the same parentage, except that 

 C. barbatum Crossii (Warnerianum) was used by Mr. Drewett in the 

 place of the typical C. barbatum. 



C discolor.* 



Parentage doubtful ; supposed to be from the same cross as C. chloroneurum. 

 " Upper sepal pale green with alternate deep green and purple veins ; 



* Not seen by us. 



