CYPRIPEDIUM MARSHALLIANUM. 
[Puate 418.}. 
Garden Hybrid. 
Terrestrial. Leaves distichous, broadly oblong, obtuse, ground colour light green, 
mottled with very deep green on the upper side, dull purple beneath, about six 
inches long. Dorsal sepals large, broadly ovate, incurved towards the apex, ground 
colour white, faintly suffused with rosy purple over the entire surface, and faintly tinged 
with yellow towards the base, the veins densely dotted with purple; lower sepal 
smaller, creamy white, dotted in a less degree with purple; petals deflexed, broadly 
obtuse, coloured and dotted in a similar manner to the dorsal sepal; lip pale yellow, 
tinged with light green, flushed and dotted with purple on the upper part about the 
aperture, the interior pale yellow, dotted with purple. Staminode yellow, tinged 
with green, with a purple tinge in the centre. 
Cypripepium MarsHaniianum, Reichenbach fil, Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1875, iv., 
N.S., p. 804; Veitch’s Manual of Orchidaceous Plants 1v., p. 91. 
This beautiful Veitchian hybrid has been in existence for many years, but such 
a slow grower is it, that for a long time the only plant that existed was in the 
rich collection of Slipper Orchids in the possession of F. G. Tautz, Esq., late of 
Studley House, Shepherd’s Bush. Since then, however, the plant from which our 
drawing was taken has changed hands, and it is now in America, but one small 
plant only is, we believe, still in this country, and that is in The Woodlands 
collection, at Streatham. It is the result of a cross between Cypripedium venustum 
or C. venustum pardinum and C. concolor. It was for a long time a unique variety, 
but now we are in possession of one or two others, such as C. Vipanii, C. Aylingii, and 
C. Arnoldianum, with a similar contour, which robs the present plant of some of its charms 
for novelty, although they do not excel this for chaste delicacy. The great fault 
with this variety is its slow growth, but we suppose all hybrids having C. concolor 
or any of this section for parents will always be open to that complaint. One 
thing is certain, and that is, they cannot endure cutting, and great care is 
requisite in handling them, to do as little with the knife as possible. The plant . 
here portrayed was grown as before stated in Mr. Tautz’s fine collection, where 
everything was smart and clean before it was dispersed, and well cared for by Mr. Cowley, 
his gardener, who has obtained many promising seedlings, and hope that they 
will prove, on flowering, desirable acquisitions to this fine class of plants, and will 
make the new home of Mr. Tautz celebrated. 
Cypripedium Marshallianwm is a pretty plant; by its foliage it suggests to the 
mind at once that C. venustum was one of its parents. It is an old cross of the 
