92 CYPEIPEDIUM. 



Upper sepal white with the central veins green and the ontside ones 

 vinous purple ; lower sepal white with green veins ; petals brown- 

 purple, green at the base ; lip brown-purple around the aperture, green 

 beneath. Staminode green and pale purple. 



Cypripedium Meirax, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XIV. (1880), p. 524. Williams' 

 Orch. Alb. II. t. 95. 



Eaised by Mr. Eobert Warner, of Broomfield, Chelmsford. 



O melanophthalmum. 



Parentage doubtful ; supposed to be of the same origin as the preceding. 

 Upper sepal whitish stained with purple at the base, veins green ; 

 lower sepal whitish with green veins ; petals with a deep purple mid- 

 vein, the superior half dull purple with some blackish warts along the 

 margin, inferior half pale green stained with pale purple towards the 

 apex ; lip reddish purple tinged with green, pale green beneath. Stami- 

 node green and pale purple. 



Cypripedium melanophthalmum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XIV. (1880), p. 525. 

 Williams' Orch. Alb. Ill, t. 109. 



Eaised by Mr. Eobert Warner. 



0. microchilum. 



G. niveum x G Drurii. 



Plant dwarf and compact. Leaves narrow, 3 — 5 inches long, hand- 

 somely tesselated. Upper sepal white with a deep purple median stripe 

 and with some purple spots in the centre and towards the base, chiefly 

 along the pale green veins ; lower sepal greenish white ; petals white 

 with a deep purple median stripe and some purple spots on the basal 

 half ; lip small and compressed, white with pale yellow-green veins. 

 Staminode with a large yellow central blotch. 



Cypripedium microchilum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XVII. (1882), p. 77. 



Eaised by Seden at our nursery. A very distinct hybrid well-nigh 

 intermediate between the two parents. 



C. Morganise. 



G. superbiens X G. Stonei. 



Plant more robust than either parent. Leaves broadly strap-shaped, 

 7 — 12 inches long, faintly tesselated. Upper sepal white, sometimes 

 with a flush of pale rose towards the lateral margins, with 7 — 10 deep 

 purple veins alternated with light yellow-green thinner veins; lower 

 sepal similar but smaller, and with fewer purple veins ; petals 5 — 

 6 inches long, pale yellow spotted with blackish purple warts that are 

 larger and more aggregated towards the tips ; lip pale rose-purple with 

 deeper veins and reticulations, the infolded lobes yellowish white with a 

 few purple spots along the margin. Staminode yellowish white. 



Cypripedium Morganiffl (lapsw calami Morganianum), Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XIV. 



(1880), p. 134. Williams' Orch. Alb. VII. t. 313. Gard. Chron. XXVI. (1886), 



p. 241, icon. xyl. 



