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CYPRIPEDIUM (HYBRIDUM) YOUNGIANUM om. 
A hybrid raised from Cypripedium superbiens, fertilised with the pollen of C. Roebelenii (a variety of C. philippinense), and quite intermediate in 
character. The leaves are bright green, reticulated with darker green nerves. Scape two-flowered. Dorsal sepal ovate, acute, with numerous purple-brown 
nerves on a light ground. Petals drooping, nearly flat, over four inches long, ciliate, with numerous light maroon spots on a pale ground, passing into 
yellowish-green near base, Lip closely resembling that of C. superbiens. Staminode broadly rounded, apex with three minute teeth, reticulated with green 
on a pale ground, base and sides pubescent. 
CyPRIPEDIUM (hybridum) YOUNGIANUM, Rolfe in Gard. Chron., Aug. 16, 1890, p. 183. 
This graceful and pretty hybrid was raised by Messrs. F. Sander & Co., of St. Albans, and flowered for the first time during 1890, when it was 
exhibited at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society on July 8th, and received an Award of Merit. It is very distinct from C. selligerum and C. 
euryandrum, two other hybrids from C. philippinense, the former with C. barbatum, the latter with C. Stonei for the second parent. The more delicate 
colours, and the numerous spots of the petals in the present hybrid are clearly derived from C. superbiens, whose influence is very apparent, especially in the 
lip, which is almost unmodified. On the other hand, the more elongated greener leaves, the two-flowered scape, the more elongated petals, and the hairy 
sides of the staminode are as clearly derived from the pollen parent. This makes at least the sixth hybrid which has been derived from C. philippinense, 
while from C. superbiens no less than a dozen are known. The way these hybrids combine the characters of the parent species is very interesting, and throws 
considerable light on the origin of natural hybrids in other groups. R. A. Rolfe. 
Our analytical drawings represent the lip and staminode, both scen from the front. 
A cHarMminG Lady's-slipper and an offspring of Cypripedium superbiens and C. Roebelenii, the latter being the seed 
parent. It was raised by us in our George Street nursery in 1886, and was distinguished by an Award of merit in 1890, 
by the Orchid Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society. 
Mr. R. A. Rolfe, in the Gardeners’ Chronicle of August 16, 1890, p. 183, describes it in the following terms :— 
“The leaf is nearly a foot long by 2% inches wide, bright green, reticulated with darker green nerves. The flower is 
very elegant, and quite intermediate in character. The dorsal sepal is ovate, acute, over 2% inches long, with about 
twenty-seven purple-brown nerves, on a very light ground. Most of the nerves are yellowish-green at the base. The 
drooping petals are 44 inches long, ciliate, copiously spotted with light maroon spots on a light ground, passing into 
yellowish-green at the base. The lip is large and pale in colour, somewhat resembling that of C. superbiens, the veins 
scarcely darker in colour, while on the side lobes and inside on the disc are numerous small, light purple spots. The 
staminode is broadly rounded, the apex with three minute teeth, the base and concave sides pubescent, reticulated with 
green on a pale ground. The lower sepal is ovate, very acute, veined with pale green on a light ground. The scape is 
two-flowered. It is very distinct from C. x selligerum and C. x euryandrum, with which it can best be compared.” 
It was named by us in compliment to Reginald Young, Esq., of Liverpool. The culture of this grand acquisition 
does not differ from the majority of tropical Cypripedia, or those requiring hothouse treatment. In fact, it is of easy 
cultivation—a characteristic of the majority of hybrids that have originated in European gardens. 
Our plate was taken from a plant now in the collection of Reginald Young, Esq., Fringilla, Linnet Lane, Liverpool. 
