CYPRIPEDIUM (HYBRIDUM) EYERMANIANUM poy. 
A hybrid raised from Cypripedium barbatum crossed with the pollen of C. Spicerianum. It is generally intermediate in character, though the leaf has 
taken strongly the character of C, barbatum, also the dorsal sepal, but with the purple mid-line of C. Spicerianum. The petals are a little nearer in character 
to those of the pollen parent, while the lip has much the shape of this species, with the colour of C. barbatum, The staminode is much like that of the last- 
named species in shape, but with the colour almost as in C. Spicerianum, except that the white margin of that species is wanting. 
CyPRIPEDIUM (hybridum) EYERMANIANUM, Rolfe in Gard. Chron., Dec. 27, 1890, p. 747. 
Our analytical drawings represent the lip and column, the latter seen from front and side. 
Tuts distinct and pretty hybrid was raised in the collection of Messrs. F. Sander & Co., of St. Albans, and flowered for 
the first time in November, 1890. On the 11th of that month it was exhibited at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural 
Society, when it received an Award of Merit. It is a very interesting addition, as it completes a series of hybrids between 
C. barbatum and a very natural group of allied species—namely, the one with green leaves and (normally) solitary 
flowers. It comprises C. villosum, C. Boxallii (botanically, scarcely more than a variety of C. villosum), C. insigne, C. 
Druryi, C. Spicerianum, C. hirsutissimum, and C. Fairieanum. C. barbatum has now been crossed with every one of 
these species, and has thus yielded the following series of hybrids (taking them in the same order as the species) :— 
C. (hybridum) Harrisianum (and its varieties), C. (hybridum) apiculatum, C. (hybridum) Ashburtoniz, C. (hybridum) 
orphanum, C, (hybridum) Eyermanianum, C. (hybridum) Fraseri, and C. (hybridum) vexillarium, whose importance as 
garden plants is now well known. The present hybrid is dedicated to Mr. J. Eyerman, of Easton, Mass., U.S.A. 
R. A. Rolfe. 
Our plate was taken from a plant which flowered in our establishment. 
