98 CYPRIPEDIUM. 



paler purple veins ; petals 3 — 4 inches long, greenish at the base with 

 some blackish warts chiefly along the superior margin, the remainder 

 rose-purple, paler at the tips ; lip brownish purple with darker venation. 

 Staminode green, studded with short purple hairs. 



Cypripedium selligerum, Rchb. in lit. Veitch Catalogue, 1878, p. 13, icon. xyl. 

 Gard. Chron. XIII. (1880), p. 776. Williams' Orch. Alb. VI. t. 255. 



var.— majus. 



Plant more robust. Flowers larger in all their parts, and more 

 brightly and richly coloured. 

 C. selligeruui majus, Veitch. 



Raised by Seden at our nursery. The variety majus is one of the 

 most stately Cypripedes in cultivation. 



0. super ciliare. 



C barbatuni X 0. superMens. 

 Upper sepal white stained with vinous purple, and having alternately 

 longer and shorter dark green veins ; lower sepal white with paler green 

 veins ; petals pale rose-purple along the middle and at the tips, the 

 remaining area pale green studded with blackish warts ; lip brownish 

 purple. Staminode pale green mottled with dark green. 



Cypripedium superciliare, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. V. (1876), p. 795. 



Raised by Seden at our nursery. The flowers of this and the 

 following hybrid are among the largest in the grouji in which we have 

 placed them. 



C Swanianum. 



C. Daijamint X 0. barbatuni. 

 Upper sepal white with alternately longer and shorter veins, the 

 middle ones green, the outside ones vinous purple ; lower sepal white 

 with green veins ; petals sometimes without warts, sometimes with a 

 few small ones along the superior margin, basal portion green or 

 brownish green, apical portion pale purple ; lip brownish purple, the 

 infolded lobes paler and densely spotted with purplish warts. Staminode 

 green . 



Cypripedium Swanianum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. VI. (,1876), p. 36. 



Raised by W illiam Swan, then gardener to the late Mr. W. Leech, 

 of Oakley, Fallow-field, Manchester. 



0. Tautzianum. 



C. niveum x 0. barbatuni. 

 Leaves handsomely tesselated. Flowers among the largest in the group 

 in which we have placed it and distinguished by the predominance of 

 a rich vinous purple in all the segments, with some white interspaces 



