CYPRIPEDIUM MACROPTERUM. 
[Puate 391.] 
Garden Hybrid. 
Terrestrial. Leaves elliptic-oblong, some nine inches in length, and almost two 
inches in breadth, handsomely tessellated with dark green upon a pale green ground. 
Scape erect, two or more flowered. Dorsal sepal ovate, fringed on the edge with 
short black hairs, light green, suffused with brown at the base, netted with deep 
green veins, and narrowly bordered with white; inferior sepal similarly coloured, but 
smaller ; petals deflexed, slightly undulated, some three or four inches long, the 
apical portion much the broadest, and clear purplish violet, the basal part greenish 
yellow, freely spotted with blackish wart-like spots, which are more or less hairy ; 
lip large and obtuse, pale violet-purple above, greenish yellow orm, Staminode 
green in centre, surrounded with dull purple and bordered with w 
It is the result of a cross between C. Lowi and C. pide 
CYPRIPEDIUM MACROPTERUM, Reichenbach f., Gardeners’ Chronicle, N.., on 
p. 552. Id. xx., p. 29%: Veitch’s Manual of Orchidaceous Plants, iv., p. 
Cypripedium macropterum is without doubt one of the best hybrids that has 
been obtained by the skill of the hybridiser, and it is a plant that should be 
found in every collection of Orchidaceous plants, as there is no fear that this variety 
will ever be discarded whilst these plants are grown. We have now such a vast 
quantity of fine species, hybrids and varieties of Cypripedes, that it will become 
necessary to weed out the inferior kinds, yet this is a point which depends upon the 
taste of cultivators, many of whom are admirers of the curious as well as of the 
beautiful, so that there will nearly always be a demand for distinct curious forms, 
independent of beauty. These Cypripediums are very easily crossed and raised from 
seed, they are easily cultivated, are for the most part free bloomers, and their flowers 
last a very long time in full beauty, and anyone having a fair amount of species — 
and varieties may have a bloom for every day in the year. : 
This beautiful plant was obtained by Mr. Seden, in the establishment of Messrs. 
J. Veitch & Sons, of Chelsea, its parents being C. Lowi: and C. superbiens, and ee 
Messrs. Veitch say of it, “It is one of the comparatively few hybrid Cypripediums 
in which the characteristics of the seed parent predominate in the flower.” 
The drawing for this plate was taken by our artist from a plant which flowered ee 
in our own collection, in the Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, Uae mewede 2 
during the present summer. : a ie 
Cypripedium macropterum is a compact and charming byend, with p a ae 
variegated —— The scape is siemens = erect, ere two or more flowers, —s Cog 
