96 CYPRIPEDIUM. 



O. politum. 



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

 chloroneurum, etc. 



Leaves 5 — 7 inches long, with curious blackish green hieroglyphic 

 markings above, spotted and stained with dull purple beneath. Upper 

 sepal white with the basal area spotted with dark purple, the mid-vein 

 blackish purple, the alternately longer and shorter veins on each 

 side of it dark green ; lower sepal white with green veins ; basal half 

 of petals pale green spotted with blackish warts, apical half dull 

 purple ; lip purplish brown with darker venation, the infolded lobes 

 pale green spotted with purple. Staminode greenish with a pale rose- 

 colour stain. 



Cypripedium politum, Rchb. iu Gard. Chron. XIV. (1830), p. 525. Williams' 

 Orch. Alb. I. t. 36. 



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



0. polystigmaticum.* 



C. venustum 1 X G Spicerianum. 



" Upper sepal as in Cypripedium Spicerianum, nerves broad with 

 ramifications of purple ; lower sepal white with a lightish ochre base, 

 and with lines of brownish purple spots ; petals green at the base with 

 numerous small blackish spots, light reddish brown from the middle to 

 the apex, centre vein brownish purple ; lip light brownish purple with 

 an ochre shade on the inferior median area. Staminode light purple, 

 with some green in the centre." 



Cypripedium polystigmaticum, Rchb. iu Gard. Chron. IV. s. 3 (1888), p. 407. 



Raised by Mr. R. H. Measures, of the Woodlands, Streatham. 



0. Porphyrochlamis. 



C. barbatum Crossii X C. lursutissimum. 

 Leaves faintly tesselatecl. Flowers large ; upper sepal deep purplish 

 crimson with blackish veins and white margin ; lower sepal much paler ', 

 petals yelloAvish green at the base, dotted with minute blackish warts, 

 glossy violet-purple at the apex ; lip brownish purple in front, greenish 

 beneath. Staminode brownish purple. 



Cypripedium Porphyrochlamis, Rchb. iu Gard. Chron. XXI. (1884), p. 476. 

 Raised by Seden at our nursery. 



0. pycnopterum. 



G. venustum X G. Lowii. 



Upper sepal light green, lower sepal paler ; petals green at the base 

 where there are some brown warty blotches, the dilated apical portion 

 pale purple ; lip brownish olive-green. Staminode brownish green with 

 deeper green reticulations in the centre. 



Cypripedium pycuopterum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. V. (1876), p. 622. 



* Not seen by us. 



