102 CYPRIPEDIUM. 



deep rose-pink, the infolded lobes ivory-white spotted with rose-purple. 

 Staminode greenish white fringed with purple hairs on the basal side. 

 Cypripedium Ainsworthii, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XI. (1879), p. 748. 



var. — calurum. 



C. Icmgifolium x G. Sedenii. 

 Differs in no essential character from the above The leaves some- 

 Avhat shorter and the petals a little narrower at the base. 



C. Ainsworthii calurum, supra. C. calurum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XV. (1881), 

 p. 41. Fl. and Pomol. 1884, p. 145, t. 619. Williams' Orch. Alb. III. t. 136. 



Cypripedium Ainsworthii was raised by Mitchell, gardener to Dr. 

 Ainsworth, Cliff Point, Broughton, Manchester ; the variety calurum 

 was raised by Seden at our nursery. With these forms may perhaps 

 be bracketed G. Lemoinierianum, Gard. Chron. III. s. 3 (1888), p 712. 



0. albo-purpureum. 



G. Schlimii X C. Dominii. 

 Both sepals ivory-white tinted with pale rose at the margins, veins 

 yellow-green ; petals 5 inches long, pendulous, twisted, pale rose-pink ; 

 lip rose-carmine with darker venation, the infolded lobes ivory-white 

 spotted with dark rose-pink. Staminode white fringed with purple 

 hairs. 



Cypripedium albo-purpureum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. VIII. (1877), p. 38. 



Raised by Seden at our nursery. A very distinct hybrid, in which 

 the influence of the pollen parent greatly predominates in the form of 

 the floral segments, while that of the seed parent is seen chiefly in 

 their colour. 



C. cardinale. 



G. Sedenii x G. Schlimii albifforum. 

 Upper sepal ivory-white, sometimes with a faint flush of pale rose 

 near the margins ; lower sepal whitish (concealed by the lip) ; petals 

 white tinted with pale rose at the base ami along the margins ; lip 

 deep rose-carmine, the infolded lobes banded alternately with rose and 

 white. Staminode white with a rose-purple spot near the front margin. 

 Cypripedium cardinale, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XVIII. (1S82), p. 488. The Garden, 

 XXVII. (1885), p. 520, t. 495. 



Raised by Seden at our nursery. The richly coloured lip in contrast 

 to the almost pure white sepals and petals, and the elegant form of the 

 flower, render this hybrid one of the most attractive in the group to 

 which it belongs. 



0. conchiferum. 



G. caririn/nii x C. Icmgifolium Hartwegii (Roi<zlii). 

 Upper sepals white with yellow-green veins; lower sepal much broader, 



