CYPRIPEDIUM CHLORONEURUM. 
[PiLate 37. | 
Garden Hybrid. 
tessellated with dark hieroglyphic markings on a light green ground, the under 
surface reddish purple. Scapes solitary in the central leaf-axils, pubescent, reddish 
purple, one-flowered, with a very short ovate bract. Flowers large, with expanded 
_ petals, rather attractive in colour; dorsal sepal broadly ovate, bright yellow-green with 
white margin, and a narrow purple central stripe, on each side of which are about 
four strongly marked dark green longitudinal veins, connected by finer transverse 
veins; lateral (connate) sepals small; petals oblong, broader upwards, two and a 
inches long, and three-fourths of an inch wide, with green longitudinal veins, and a 
dark purple central line, on one side of which (the upper half) they are washed with 
__-wine-purple, and have a yellowish buff margin, and a few black warts near the base, 
where they are ciliated ; on the other (lower) half very slightly tinted with purple, the 
cross veins more apparent, and the margin green; lip rather large, shortly pouch- 
Shaped, heavily stained with wine-purple, and freely marked with bold reticulations 
» of a darker purple, the upper angles yellowish at the margins. Staminode transversely 
 Yeniform, pale green, with dark green feathery markings in front. 
CYPRIPEDIUM CHLORONEURUM, Reichenbach fil., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, N.S., XIV. 525. 
: This is one of the most distinct of the new hybrid Lady’s Slippers that pave 
~ been recently introduced to the notice of Orchid-growers; it will also be appreciated 
S$ one of the most useful, being of a neat free-growing and abundant-blooming habit 
_ of growth. The Cypripediums are everybody’s plants, that is ‘to say, any one who has 
make them their especial care and study, procuring every species and variety that 
tan be obtained, and thus forming a very interesting and diverse group. 
Our present subject was raised by Robert Warner, Esq., in whose collection a 
Broomfield it has been blooming very abundantly, and it was from Mr. Warners 
Plant that our drawing was taken. The variety resembles the one figured on plate 
a6 im being of free-blooming habit, and also in being very attractive 1 — rs 
ay foliage as well as its flowers. Many hybrid Cypripediums have been raised in 
ee Country of late years by the Messrs. Veitch and Sons, and also by — growers. 
‘ me of these have proved to be very beautiful and effective subjects, and “4 
ies there are others coming forward that have not yet bloomed. ae alias 
fo “S May yet be gained by crossing those kinds that have flowers © 
a tnd colours, and, as many of the varieties bloom simultaneously, 
x . - abundant opportunities for carrying out his plans. 
Epiphytal. Acaulescent. Leaves radical, distichous, coriaceous, oblong acute, closely” 
4 place adapted for their cultivation can manage them without difficulty. Many growers 
the hybridiser 
