CYPRIPEDIUM. 95 



0- pavoninum.* 



G. villosum Boxalli X G. venudum. 



" Upper sepal pale green bordered with white and with some sepia 

 brown blotches at the base, veins sepia-brown ; lower sepal whitish 

 with a few brown spots in two rows ; petals with a brown median vein, 

 the superior part brown tinted with purple, the central area pale yellow- 

 brown spotted with brown, the inferior part similar but paler and with 

 fewer spots ; lip nearly that of Cypripedium venushim, pale yellowish 

 brown beneath. Staminode brownish yellow with green nervation." 

 Cypripedium pavomnum, Rchb. in Gard. Cliron. III. s. 3 (1888), p. 264. 



Raised by Mr. D. 0. Drewett, of Eiding, Mill-on-Tyne. 



0. Peetersianum.* 



G. philippinense X C. barbatum. 

 " Upper sepal white with brown-purple (dahlia-carmine 1) veins ; lower 

 sepal similar but smaller ; petals whitish with rows of purple spots at 

 the base, the remainder brown-purple (dahlia-carmine) ; lip reddish 

 brown above, yellowish green (ochre 1 ?) beneath." 



Cypripedium Peetersianum, Rchb. in Gard. Cbron. IIL s. 3 (1888), p. 331. 

 Origin not recorded. Named in compliment to M. Peeters, of St. 

 Gilles, Brussels. 



0. pleistochlorum. 



C. barbatum X C. javanicum virens. 

 Upper sepal whitish with a faint flush of pale purple near each lateral 

 margin, central veins green, the outside ones purple ; lower sepal white 

 with green veins ; basal half of petals dull green, distal half brown- 

 purple with green veins ; lip deep brown-purple. Staminode pale green 

 with dark green venation. 



Cypripedium pleistochlorum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. II. s. 3 (1887), p. 552. 

 Raised by Mr. D. 0. Drewett, of Riding, Mill-on-Tyne. 



0. plunerum. 



Parentage doubtful; supposed to be G villosum x G. venustum. 

 Upper sepal whitish with deep green veins ; lower sepal white with 

 fewer veins ; petals green at the base, mid-vein blackish, the superior 

 half purplish brown with green veins and 6 — 7 blackish warts at the 

 margin, the inferior half paler; lip dull yellowish purple. Staminode 

 green. 



Cypripedium plunerum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. I. s. 3 (1887), p. 40. 

 Raised by Mr. Norman C. Cookson, of Oakfield, Wylam-on-Tyne. 



* Not seen by us. 



