CYPRIPEDIUM MORGANI^. 



[Plate 313.] 



Garden Hybrid. 



A terrestrial plant, bearing distichous, ligulate, obtuse leaves, which are from 



and about two and a half inches wide, leathery in 



nine to twelve inches 



texture and deep 



long, 



shining 



green 



high, 



inches 



in colour, faintly tessellated with darker green 

 Scape radical, terete, erect, purplish brown, slightly hirsute, about eighteen 



large, ovate-acute, 

 or elliptic, about two 



bearing from three to four very 

 streaked with purple ; 

 inches lonoj, and 

 delicate 



large 



flowers ; 



bracts 



long, 



rose 



dorsal sepal broadly oblong 



and 



a 



half 



an inch and three-quarters broad, w^hite within, suffused with 



colour, and ornamented with 



eight 



streaks, the two lateral combined sepals being smaller, 

 highly coloured; petals ligulate, acute, about five inches 



to ten longitudinal reddish purple 



of an inch broad, curved downwards, slightly undulate, and ciliated on the 



and heavily spotted 



white, 



tinged 



with sulphur-yellow. 



and similarly though less 

 long and three quarters- 

 margin, 



with 



brownish purple, 



especially so towards the apex ; lip nearly as in C> siiperhiens, but bolder, 



unguiculate, standing forward horizontally, above rose colour veined with brownish 



purple, whitish beneath ; staminode pale yellow, somewhat lunate, with incurved 

 cusps and a deep sinus at the back. 



Cypeipedium Morgakt^, Rchh. fiL, Gardeners' Chronicle, 1886, xxvi., p. 243; 



L' Illustration Hovticole, fifth series, ISST, t. 5; Garden, 1883, xxiii., p. 58, t. 372; 

 Williams, Orchid-Grower's Manual, 6 ed., p. 251. 



Many hybrid Cypripediums have been raised in this country during the last 

 twenty years, and the named kinds have now become very numerous; the subject 



of 



our present plate, however, we think cannot fail to enchant all lovers of 



these ''Slipper Orchids." We consider this the grandest hybrid that has yet 

 been raised. It is the result of carefully selecting two good parents, and when 

 this is done the cross is almost sure to be a successful one ; in this case the parents 

 chosen were C. superhiens and O. Stonei^ the former belonging to the barhatum 

 section, and the latter to the long-petalled, glossy-leaved Eastern species which 



the Western Selenipediums in everything, but wanting the three-celled 



resemble 



ovary. C. Morganice appears to resemble its first-named parent more closely in 



the flower, and the latter . in its 



foliacre, although 



o 



the beauties of both may be 



said to be fairly blended. This splendid hybrid was raised by Mr. Seden, in 

 Messrs. J, Veitch & Sons' Nurseries at Chelsea, and is named in honour of the 

 late Mrs. M. Morgan, of New York, U.S.A., who was a great admirer of Orchids, 

 and one of the most liberal and enthusiastic purchasers of her day. Within the 

 last few years the taste for Cypripediums has become almost universal, for these 



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