88 CYPRIPEDIUM. 



white area at the apex ; the petals more distinctly suffused with purple, 

 especially towards the top. 



Eaised hy M. Bauer, principal propagator at the Etablissement de la 

 Muette, Paris. Both forms are from the same seed capsule and 

 approach so closely to C. Ashburtonice that they might without any 

 impropriety be brought under it as varieties. As in that hybrid, the 

 influence of the pollen parent is very decided. 



O. Lathamianum * 



C. Spticerianum x C. villosum. 

 "Upper sepal white with a dark purple mid-line, green at the base 

 with a few lines ; lower sepal greenish ; petals with a dark mid-line and 

 with brown margins that are undulate near the apex, superior half light 

 ochre-yellow at the base, brownish at the apex, inferior half greenish 

 yellow ; lip as in Cypripedium villosum, but paler. Staminode also as 

 in C. villosum." 



Cypripedium Lathamianum, Echb. in Gard. Chron. III. s. 3 (1888), p. 360. 



Eaised by Mr. W. B. Latham, Curator of the Botanic Garden, 

 Birmingham. 



O. Leeanum. 



G. insigne x G. Spicerianum. 

 Upper sepal white with an apple-green blotch at the base, the central 

 area traversed by longitudinal lines of spots that are mauve-purple in 

 the white area and brown in the green blotch ; lower sepal pale apple- 

 green ; petals greenish yellow with brown-purple veins ; lip yellowish 

 brown Avith deeper veins, the infolded lobes and inner surface opposite 

 the aperture buff-yelloAV, the latter spotted with purple. Staminode dull 

 buff-yelloAv with an orange-yellow glandular boss. 



Cypripedium Leeanum, Veitch and Gard. Chron. XXI. (1884), p. 50. 



var. — superbum. 



G. insigne Maulei x G. Spicerianum. 



Differs from Cypripedium Leeanum chiefly in the upper sepal being 



broader, AAdth a larger area of pure white and the spots within it of a 



brighter purple ; the lower sepal is also spotted at the base. 



C. Leeanum superbum, Veitch. Gard. Chron. XXIII. (1885), p. 277. Godefroy's 

 Orchidophilc, 1885, p. 240. Echb. in Gard. Chron. XXV. (1886), p. 168. Williams' 

 Orch. Alb. V. t. 223 (Leeanum). 



The second of the two forms was raised first by Seden at our nursery. 

 The hybrid hoat knoAvn as Cypripedium Leeanum Avas raised in the 

 collection of Sir Trevor LaAvrence, Bart, at Burford Lodge, Dorking, and 

 floAvered for the first time some time after the first fiWering of 



* Not seen by us. 



