104 CYPR1PEDIUM. 



spotted with deep rose. Staminode greenish, fringed at the hack with 

 blackish hairs. 



Cypripediuin Dominiaimni, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1870, p. 1181. Floral Mag. 

 t. 499. 



Raised by Dominy at our nursery. This was the first hybrid raised 

 among the Selenipedia, and is still one of the most admired of the 

 group in which we have placed it. 



0. grande. 



0. longifoliuru Harhvegii (Roezlii) X G. caudatum. 



Flowers the largest of the Selenipedium hybrids ; upper sepal yellowish 

 Avhite with yellow-green veins ; lower sepal similar but with paler 

 veins; petals 12 — 15 or more inches long, rose-pink, except the broader 

 basilar portion which is yellowish with green veins ; lip greenish yellow 

 toned with brown, paler beneath, the infolded lobes ivory-white spotted 

 with deep rose. Staminode pale yellow, fringed with blackish hairs at 

 the back. 



Cypripediuin grande, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XV. (1881), p. 462. Id. XVIII. 



(1882), p. 488. 



Raised by Seclen at our nursery. This is the most robust Cypri- 

 pediuin known ; the sword-shaped leaves are 24 — 30 inches long ; the 

 flower scapes frequently exceed a yard in height, and the flowers measure 

 7 — 8 inches across the sepals from tip to tip. 



0. leucorhodum. 



C. longifolluni Hartwegii (Roezlii) X C. Schlimii albiflorum. 



Upper sepal white tinted with pale rose on the basal area ; lower 

 sepal wholly white ; petals spreading, white at the base and on each 

 side of the median vein, pale rose at the margins and apex ; lip pale 

 rose-pink suffused with white, the infolded lobes ivory-white. Stami- 

 node ivory-white, fringed with purple hairs at the back. 



Cypripedium leucorhodum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XXIII. (1885), p. 270. 



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

 preponderates in the foliage, sepals, and lip, also in the colour of the 

 flower. 



C. nitidissimum.* 



0. caudatum Warsa wiczii X C. conchiferum, 



" Sepals whitish yellow with numerous yellow-brown nerves ; tails 

 (petals) long, yellowish in the centre downwards, passing into yellow- 

 brown towards the tip; lip varnished, brown with a central green 

 stripe, pallid beneath, infolded lobes pale yellow with brown spots 

 Staminode brown, fringed with purple hairs behind." 



Cypripediuin nitidissimum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. IV. s 3 (18S8), p. 6. 

 Raised by Mr. Norman C. Cookson, of Oakwood, AVvlam-on-Tyne. 

 * Not seen by us. 



