CYPRIPEDIUM. 97 



var. — porphyrospilum 



Flowers larger ; sepals whitish with green veins : petals more brightly 

 coloured ; infolded lobes of lip yellowish with a few brownish warts. 



C. pycnopterum porphyrospilum, supra.* C. porphyrospilum, Rchb. in Gard. 

 Chron. XII. (1879), p. 489. 



Eaised by Seden at our nursery. As both forms were raised from 

 seeds of the same capsule, the second can only be regarded as a variety 

 of the first which it surpasses in size of flower and depth of colour 

 In both forms the influence of the pollen parent greatly preponderates. 



0. radiosum. 



C. Lawrenceanam X C. Spicerianum. 

 Leaves tesselated. Upper sepal nearly as in Gypripedium Spicerianum, 

 white with a green blotch at the base, with purple veins and a deep 

 purple stripe at the fold ; lower sepal pale green ; petals slightly 

 deflexed, slightly undulate and ciliate at the margin, green with brown 

 veins \ lip greenish brown, paler beneath. Staminode purplish, paler at 

 the margin. 



Cypripedium radiosum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XXIV. (1885), p. 424. 



Eaised by Seden at our nursery. 



0. Sallierii. 



G. villosum x G. insigne. 



Upper sepal apple-green with a white border prolonged almost to the 

 base, veins deeper green along which are numerous blackish brown 

 spots ; lower sepal pale grem with few, or without spots ; petals with a 

 brown-purple mid-vein, the superior half brownish purple, the inferior 

 • half yellow-green; lip yellowish brown, the infolded lobes buff-yellow, as 

 is the staminode, which has the characteristic tooth of both parents. 



Cypripedium Sallierii, Godefroy fide E. Bergman in Rev. Hort. 1885, p. 476. 

 Godefroy's Orchidophile, 1887, p. 33. 



A hybrid that appeared in the collection of Madame Fould at the 

 Chateau du Val, near St. Germain, in France, but by whom raised is 

 unknown. A hybrid from the same cross and identical with it, has 

 been since raised by Mr. J. C. Bowring, of the Forest Farm, near 

 Windsor. It is named in compliment to M. Sallier, Madame Fould's 

 gardener. 



O. selligerum. 



C. barbatum X G. philippinense. 

 Upper sepal white with a green stain at the base and with alter- 

 nately longer and shorter deep purple veins ; lower sepal white with 



* See page 72, foot note. 



