CYPRIPEDIUM AMESIANUM., 
[PLate 340.] 
Garden Hybrid. 
Terrestrial. Leaves ligulate, arranged in a distichous manner, some nine inches 
in length, and an inch and a _ half in breadth, upper surface bright green, 
beneath slightly spotted near the base with deep purple. Flowers large, solitary ; 
dorsal sepal ovate, white, veined and netted with green, and stained with soft 
brown on the lower part; petals similar to those of C. villoswm, superior half 
chestnut-brown, inferior portion much paler; lip large, esbounbling in shape that of 
C. villosum, brown, suffused with flesh colour and green in front, the whole flower 
bearing that peculiar freshly varnished appearance so characteristic of C. villosum 
and its varieties. 
CypripeDIUM AmEsIANUM, Williams’ New Plant Catalogue, 1887, p. 22. 
CyPRIPEDIUM AMESIANUM, supra. 
This new hybrid Cypripedium we have dedicated to The Hon, F. L. Ames, of 
North Easton, Massachusetts, who has one of the finest collections of Orchidaceous 
plants in the United States of America. This plant is the result of a cross between 
C. villosum and C. venustum, the beauties of the two parents being well blended, 
both in the foliage and flower, forming a fine acquisition to this deservedly popular 
genus of Orchids. It is a free-growing variety, and also produces its large flowers 
very freely; moreover, as this plant thrives admirably in an intermediate house, or 
in the warmest part of an Odontoglossum house, it is doubly valuable. In a low 
temperature we find the foliage is more robust, and the flowers are also finer and 
of a better colour than when grown in strong heat, so that those possessing a cool 
Orchid house can grow it to advantage. C. Measuresianum is also best grown 
cool, and there are several other varieties which require the same treatment, so 
that by selecting those kinds for hybridising that succeed in a low temperattire, a 
race of these “Slipper Orchids” may be obtained, which will prove hardier than 
many we already possess, and which will produce a rich array of colour in a cool 
house. Our drawing was taken from a fine plant which flowered in the Victoria 
and Paradise Nurseries, and from whence the stock placed in commerce last year 
was obtained. 
Cypripedium Amesianum is a distinct and beautiful evergreen plant which 
grows about ten inches high; the leaves are from seven to nine inches in length, 
by one inch and a half in breadth, bright green, slightly spotted on the underside 
with deep purple. The ovate dorsal sepal is white, veined and netted with green, 
