94 CYPETPBDIUM. 



lower sepal white with light green veins, the central ones with a few 

 small purple spots ; petals deflexed, vinous purple with green veins, 

 paler at the apex, the mid-vein deep purple ; lip dark vinous purple. 

 Cypripedium cenanthum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. "V. (1876), p. 297. 



var. — superbum . 



Flowers larger, brighter and more varied in colour ; upper sepal deep 

 claret-red with broad lines of blackish purple spots along the veins, 

 which, where they enter the broad white margin, are mauve-purple ; 

 petals shaded with yellow-brown. 



C. cenanthum superbum, Veiich, Catal. 1885, p. 11. Sander's RtichenbacMa, I. 



t. 38. 



Both forms raised by Seden at our nursery. Cypripedium oenanthum 

 was the first hybrid Cypripede to flower of which one of the parents is 

 itself a hybrid; the results obtained by crossing a hybrid with a pure 

 species, or vice versa, show a variability in colour and in a less degree 

 in form, rarely observable in hybrids raised from pure species, which 

 are, as a rule, remarkably constant. The variety superbum is one of 

 the handsomest of Cypripedes ; we know of no other that presents such 

 a remarkable combination of colours in its flowers. 



0. Orestes. 



G. Harrisianum X C. sp., probably G. insigne Maulei. 

 Upper sepal pale apple-green, with a broad white border and large 

 red-brown spots along the veins ; lower sepal pale green ; petals brownish 

 purple with a darker mid-vein, pale yellow green at the base ; lip 

 bright vinous purple shaded with brown. Staminode yellowish. 

 Cypripedium Orestes, supra. 



Eaised by Seden at our nursery. It is probably an escape from the 

 pot in which the seeds that produced GypHpedium oenanthum were 

 sown, which would make it strictly but a variety of that hybrid, from 

 which it is clearly distinct in the colour of its flowers. 



0. orphanum. 



G. barbatum or allied sp. X G. Drurii. 



Upper sepal white tinted with pale purple towards the margin, Avith 

 a broad deep purple median band, and with 3 — 4 green veins on each 

 side of it ; lower sepal whitish with green veins ; petals white with a 

 deep purple median line and two green veins on each side of it, margins 

 pale purple ; lip brownish purple mottled with vinous purple. Stami- 

 node brownish purple. 



Cypripedium orphanum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XXVI. (1886), p. 166. 



Raised by Seden at our nursery. It is one of the most distinct of 

 the group in which we have placed it. 



