100 CYPRIPEDIUM. 



green with darker green veins ; petals de-flexed, yellowish brown toned 

 with purple and spotted with blackish warts towards the base ; lip 

 brownish green. Staminode yellowish green, with green reticulations. 

 Cypripedium vernixium, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XL (1879), p. 398. 

 Raised by Seden at our nursery. 



0. vexillarium. 



G. barbatum X C. Fairieanum. 



Plant of dwarf habit with tesselated leaves. Upper sepal vinous 

 purple with dark purple veins, except at the base, where they are grass- 

 green with the interspaces white ; lower sepal white with a faint flush 

 of vinous purple, the veins green ; petals deflexed and recurved as in 

 Gypripedium Fairieanum, undulate and ciliate at the margins, the 

 superior half green with purple margin, the inferior half white with 

 purple margin, veins green ; lip brownish red, paler beneath, the infolded 

 lobes pale green spotted with purple warts. Staminode pale brownish 

 green. 



Cypripedium vexillarium, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1870, p. 1373. 



Raised by Dominy at our nursery. The influence of the pollen parent, 

 itself one of the most beautiful of Cypripedes, so strikingly prepon- 

 derates in this hybrid that it is scarcely less admired than its 

 progenitor. 



0. Williamsianum. 



Parentage doubtful ; probably G. villomm X with one of the C. venustum, 



G. barbatum, etc., group. 



Leaves faintly tesselated. Middle area of upper sepal blackish brown, 

 the mid-vein purple, the other veins green, margin white ; lower sepal 

 whitish with green veins ; petals with a dark brown mid-vein, the 

 superior half light brownish purple with green veins, the inferior half 

 much paler ; lip as in Gypripedium viUosum, brownish yellow toned with 

 purple, greenish yelloAV beneath. 



Cypripedium Williamsianum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XVII. (1882), p. 218. 



Raised by Mr. Robert Warner, of Broomfield, Chelmsford, and dedi- 

 cated to Mr. B. 6. Williams, of Holloway. 



C. "Winnianum. 



G. villomm x G. Drurii. 

 Upper sepal green margined with white, and with a broad blackish 

 purple mid-line, on each side of which is a brownish stain ; lower sepal 

 yellow-green ; petals incurved, yellow-brown with a dark purple mid- 

 line ; lip yellow-brown, paler beneath. Staminode pale yellow, with the 

 characteristic boss of Cypriprrflum rilloxum. 



Qypripedium Winnianum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XXV. (1886),' p. 362. 

 Raised by Seden at our nursery, and dedicated to Mr. Charles Winn, 

 of Selly Hill, Birmingham. 



