CYPRIPEDIUM. 85 



O. gemmiferum. 



C Hookerce x C. purpuratum. 



Upper sepal white with rather close-set green veins ; lower sepal white 

 with paler green veins ; basal half of petals green, very pale on the 

 inferior side of the mid-vein, and with 7 — 10 small blackish warts at 

 the superior margin, apical half pale purple ; lip brownish purple, the 

 infolded lobes pale green spotted with dark purple. Staminode pale 

 green with deep green spots. 



Cypripedium gemruiferum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XV. (1881), p. 814. 



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



0. G-erminyanum. 



C villosum x G. hirsutissimum. 



Flowers nearly as large as those of Cypripedium villosum, with all the 

 segments fringed with short Avhite hairs ; upper sepal brown bordered 

 with yellowish green, the brown area densely spotted with black ; lower 

 sepal pale yellowish green ; basal half of petals much undulated at the 

 margin, pale vinous red above the dark mid-vein, pale yellow-green 

 below it, dilated apical half pale violet-purple ; lip brown-purple in 

 front, green beneath. Staminode yellowish green. 



Cypripedium Germinyanum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XXV. (1886), p. 200. 



Eaised by Seden at our nursery. It is dedicated to Count Adrien 

 de Germiny, of Gouville, near Eouen, the possessor of one of the finest 

 collections of orchids in France. Although we have placed it in the 

 Harrisianum group, the influence of the pollen parent is so decided that 

 some of the most obvious Cypripedium villosum characters which pre- 

 dominate throughout that group are here almost obliterated. It is an 

 exceptionally distinct hybrid. 



0. Godseffianum.* 



G. villosum Boxalli X C. hirsidissimum. 

 " Upper sepal light yellow toned with sepia-brown, except at the 

 margin and at the base, where there are some dark brown spots ; lower 

 sepal pale yellow with some rows of dark spots in the centre ; basal 

 portion of petals undulate at the margin, yellowish, densely spotted, 

 distal dilated portion mauve-purple ; lip pale brown, yellowish beneath. 

 Staminode yellow." 



Cypripedium GodsefiBanum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. III. s. 3 (1888), p. 296. 

 Eaised by Mr. Norman C. Cookson, of Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne. 



O. Harrisianum. 



C. villosum X C barbatum. 



Leaves 6 — 10 inches long, tesselated with dark and bright grass-green. 

 Upper sepal deep vinous, almost blackish purple, passing into green 



* Not seen by us. 



