CYPRIPEDIUM LAWRENCEANUM. 
[Puate 22.] 
Native of Borneo. 
Epiphytal. Stem almost none, the leaves  sprin ing from the crown of stout 
roots. Leaves radical, distichous, coriaceous, broadly oblong, acute, channelled, a foot 
long, the upper surface marbled with a dark green mosaic pattern on a whitish-green 
ground colour. Scapes solitary in the leaf-axils, stout, pubescent, with an oblong- 
ovate acute sheathing bract near the top, from which the flower or flowers emeroc. 
Flowers very large, in the way of those of C. barbatun mayus; dorsal sepal sub- 
rotund or very broadly-ovate, acute, white, with numerous (about thirteen) shining 
curved purplish veins which run out nearly or quite to the edge, and usually alternate 
with others which are short and less boldly marked; lateral sepals connate, small, 
oblong, greenish white, with five dark purplish veins; petals fully half an inch wide, 
divaricate, linear-oblong ciliate, green in the upper half, with purple margin, stained 
with dull purple towards the tip, and with several dark fleshy warts along each 
margin, the lower half flushed with pale wine red; lip very large, pouch-shaped, 
the lateral horns much developed, purplish brown above, yellowish green below, with 
numerous warts on the inside. Staminode of a wax-like yellowish white, the eres 
exterior border split in the centre, and having five anterior teeth, the middle one 
much larger than the rest. 7 
CYPRIPEDIUM Lawrenceanum, Reichenbach fil., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, 0 ey a 
748 ; Veitch and Sons, Catalogue of New Plants, 1879, p- 9, 28, with figure ; 
Florist. and Pomologist, 1880, 112, with figure. me 
rn 2 asi 
The introduction of this splendid species of Lady’s Slipper is one of the results 
of Mr. F. W. Burbidge’s visit to Borneo, in the service of Messrs. Veitch & Sons, 
of Chelsea. It is a very robust grower, and flowered for the first time in the 
autumn of 1878, when it was named by Professor Reichenbach, in the place above 
quoted, in honour of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., M.P., an ardent orchidophilist, and 
the possessor of a collection of Orchids of unequalled richness and beauty. 
The Cypripediums now form a large family group, and rank amongst the most 
esetal of Orchids that can be cultivated, since the lasting quality of their flowers, 
especially for exhibition and decorative purposes, is something extraordinary. Many 
of them in addition » possess beautifully variegated foliage, as in the species we now 
» Which has the leaves most distinctly marked with light and dark green. 
3 drawing Was taken from a very fine plant in the select collection of H. M. 
Pollett, ‘Esq., F ernside, Bickley, a gentleman who is a great lover of Orchids, and 
who ‘has. the wisdom to secure healthy young plants at the outset, in order that he 
may see them gToW on into good specimens, such as the one now before us has 
done. It gives one great pleasure to see plants so well cultivated. 
