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green ; petals with a dark purple mid-vein, vinous purple except on 

 the inferior side from the base to beyond the middle, which is light 

 green with deeper veins ; lip brownish purple, dull green beneath. 

 Staminode dull purple, paler at the margins, whitish in the centre. 

 Cypripedium marmorophyllum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. V. (1876), p. 130. 

 Raised by Seden at our nursery. The influence of the pollen parent 

 preponderates in the flower, while that of the seed parent is most decided 

 in the foliage. 



0. Marshallianum. 



C. venustam pardinum x C. concolor. 



Leaves 5 — 6 inches long and 1| — 2| inches broad, mottled with 

 blackish green on a light green ground. Upper sepal white tinted with 

 pale rose-purple and densely spotted with purple, the spots chiefly 

 aggregated along the veins ; lower sepal wholly concealed by the lip, 

 cream- white spotted with purple ; petals coloured like the upper sepal 

 with the rose-purple more diffuse and of a deeper shade, the spots 

 somewhat longer ; lip pale yellow-green, much spotted with purple around 

 the aperture. Staminode pale yellow with a light purple stain in the 

 centre. 



Cypripedium Marshallianum, Rent), in Gard. Chron. IV. (1875), p. 804. 



Raised by Seden at our nursery. The influence of the pollen parent 

 is very marked in the form of the floral segments. 



C Measuresianum. 



C. villosum x C. venustum, or vice versa. 

 Leaves bright green above, much spotted with dull purple beneath. 

 Upper sepal bright yellow-green with a narrow white margin, the 

 central veins blackish brown, confluent at the base, and forming a large 

 blackish brown blotch there ; lower sepal pale green, with bright green 

 veins ; median vein of petals • brown-purple, the superior half ' orange- 

 brown with brown veins, inferior half paler with green ; lip yellowish, 

 with red-brown veins and green reticulations. Staminode orange-brown 

 with a greenish stain in the centre. 



Cypripedium Measuresianum, Williams' Orch. Alb. VTI. t. 304 (1888). 

 Origin not recorded. It is dedicated to Mr. R. H. Measures, of The 

 Woodlands, Streatham, whose collection of Cypripedes is one of the 

 most complete known. To this form must be referred Cypripedium 

 Amesianum (Williams' Orch. Alb. VIII. t. 340), said to have been raised 

 from the same cross. 



O. Meirax. 



Parentage doubtful ; supposed to be of the same origin as Cypripedium 

 chloroneurum. 



