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lower sepal pale green with darker veins ; basal portion of petals green 

 spotted with purple, apical portion pale purplish rose ; Up reddish brown 

 mottled with yellow-green. Stauiinode pale green with darker green 

 reticulations." 



Cypripedium discolor, Eehb. in Gard. Chron. XVI \. (1SS2), p. 218. 

 Kaised by Mr. Eobert TTarner, of Broomfield, near Chelmsford. 



0. Electra. 



C. Harrisianttm x C. sp., probably C. insigne Maulei. 



Upper sepal apple-green with a very broad white border, the central 

 area with blackish brown spots that are arranged in Lines along the veins, 

 and often confluent ; lower sepal pale green with a few blackish spots 

 chiefly on the mid-vein ; petals veined and reticulated with brown-purple 

 on a paler ground, and with a few small dark spots on the inferior side 

 of the mid-vein near the base ; lip brownish purple. Staminode dull 

 yellow with the characteristic tooth of C. insiyrie. 



Cvpripedium Electra, Eolfe in Gard. Cnron. HE s. 3 (1888), p. 297. 



Eaised by Seden, at our nursery. There is some uncertainty respecting 

 its origin ; it is probably an escape from the pot in which the seedlings 

 - of Cypripedium amadkum were raised. Although very distinct from that 

 hybrid in colour, it can only be regarded as a variety of it. 



0. Euryale. 



C. Lawrenceanum x C. superbiens. 



Leaves handsomely tesselated. Upper sepal white with a faint flush of 

 pale purple towards the lateral margins, veins green ; lower sepal white 

 with pale green veins ; petals but slightly deflexed, green with deeper 

 veins, purplish at the tips, and with interrupted lines of blackish warts 

 along the mid-vein and both margins, the latter being hairy ; lip 

 purplish brown, greenish beneath. Staminode pale green. 

 Cypripedium Euryale, supra. 



Eaised by Seden at our nursery. Cypripedium Vervaetianum (Gard. 

 Chron. III. s. 3 (1888), p. 712), raised from the same cross, is a later 

 acquisition. Our plants were distributed twelve months before the appear- 

 ance of the description quoted. 



O. euryandrum. 



C. barbafum x C Stonei. 



Upper sepal broad, almost orbicular, centre green with deep green veins, 

 pale purple on each side of it with deep vinous purple veins, apical 

 border white; lower sepal much Mualler and paler in colour; petals yellowish 

 green with numerous blackish warts, and tinted with vinous purple 



