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on each side of it scattered over the whole surface ; lip purplish brown. 

 Starainode with a white border and purple disc." 



Cypripedium Hornianum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. II. s. 3 (1887), p. 428. 

 Eaised by F. Horn, gardener to Baron Nathaniel de Eothschild, at 

 Hohe "Warte, near Vienna. 



O. Io. 



G. Argus x C. Lawrenceanum. 

 Upper sepal white with alternately longer and shorter veins, the 

 central ones green, the others deep purple; lower sepal white with green 

 veins; petals greenish, pale purple at the tips, and with numerous large 

 blackish warts chiefly on the basal half ; lip brownish purple, pale 

 green beneath. Staminode pale green with darker green central reticu- 

 lations and dull rose-pink border. 



Cypripedium Io, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XXV. (1886), p. 488. Sander's Eeichen- 

 bachia I. t. 23. 



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



0. javanico-superbiens. 



Parentage expressed by the name. 



Upper sepal pale green with deeper green veins and whitish margin ; 

 lower sepal much smaller, white with light green veins; petals green, 

 spotted with blackish warts to two -thirds of their length, the apical third 

 pale rose-purple with fewer spots ;. lip brown in front, pale green beneath, 

 the infolded lobes reddish brown. Staminode pale yellow-green with deep 

 green markings. 



Cypripedium javanico-superbiens, Rev. hort. 1885, p. 476. 



Eaised by M. Bleu, Secretaire general de la Societe nationale d'Horti- 

 culture de France. 



0. Laforcadei. 



C. barbatwm X C, insigne Ghantinii, 

 Central and basal area of upper sepal light yellow-green traversed 

 longitudinally by brown-purple veins, the broad white apical border 

 prolonged laterally to near the base ; lower sepal pale green with some 

 brown spots on the central veins; petals light purplish brown with 

 deeper veins except towards the base on the inferior side of the mid- 

 vein where they are yellow-green spotted with purple; lip reddish brown, 

 pale yellow-green beneath. Staminode buff-yellow with the characteristic 

 glandular boss of 0. insigne. 



Cypripedium Laforcadei, Hort. Bauer (1884), fide Godefroy's Orchidophile, 1886, 

 p. 122. C. Bartetii, Carriere in Rev. Hort. 1886, p. 84. 

 SUb. var. — Bartefs, upper sepal with a vinous purple mid-vein, and a 

 large pale purple stain near each lateral margin; lower sepal with a 



