CYPRIPEDIUM. 93 



Raised by Seden at our nursery. Without doubt the facile princeps 

 of the group in which we have placed it, to which it stands in pretty 

 much the same relation- as Cypripedium Stonei platytcenium does to the 

 normal C. Stonei, the pollen parent, from which its most striking charac- 

 teristics have been derived. It was dedicated to the late Mrs. Morgan, 

 of New York, an ardent amateur of orchids. 



0. Mrs. Canham. 



C superbiens X C. villosum. 



Leaves 6 — 9 inches long, faintly tesselated. Flowers among the 

 largest in the group of Cypripedium villosum hybrids ; upper sepal 

 brownish purple at the base passing into pale green upwards, and with 

 a broad white margin, veins deep brown-purple at the base passing into 

 green upwards ; lower sepal white with green veins ; petals deflexed, 

 ciliate and undulate at the margins, mid-vein blackish purple, the 

 superior half brownish rose-purple with green veins, inferior half paler ; 

 lip yellowish brown with brown venation. Staminode nearly as in C. 

 superbiens. 



Cypripedium Mrs. Canham, Rolfe in Gard. Chron. II. s. 3 (1887), p. 746. 



Acquired by us from the same source as Cypripedium CJmrles 

 Canham, and obtained from the inverted cross. The two differ chiefly 

 through the influence of the pollen parent preponderating in each, so 

 that while in the first-named hybrid some of the more salient charac- 

 teristics of C. supjerbiens are conspicuous, in the present subject the 

 general aspect of C. villosum predominates. 



C. nitens. 



C. villosum X C insigne Maulei. 



Upper sepal apple-green with a broad white margin, and traversed by 

 longitudinal lines of spots that are large and blackish on the green area, 

 and small and purple within the white margin; lower sepal pale green 

 with but few spots; petals ochreous yellow with reddish brown venation; 

 lip yellow-green shaded with brown. Staminode pale buff-yellow with a 

 bright yellow tubercle near the centre. 



Cypripedium nitens, Rckb. in Gard. Chron. IX. (1878), p. 398. 



Raised by Seden at our nursery. The characteristics of the pollen 

 parent preponderate considerably, but the flower has the highly lustrous 

 surface of Cypripedium villosum, which suggested the name nitens, 

 " shining." 



0. oenanthum. 



C. Harrisianum x C. insigne Maulei. 

 Upper sepal white with green veins, along which are numerous purple 

 spots that are sometimes confluent, the broad apical border pure white ; 



