CYPRIPEDIUM GODEFROY. 
[PuaTEe 177.] 
Native of Cochin China. 
Epiphytal or sub-terrestrial. Acaulescent, tufted. Leaves distichous, spreading 
horizontally, ligulate, bluntly acute or emarginate, channelled along the centre, about 
four inches long, dark green, with irregular blotches of pale green over the upper 
surface, purplish red beneath, the equitant base greenish, spotted with purple on 
the outer side. Peduncle densely hairy, green, spotted with dark purple dots; 
bract ovate, half the length of the ovary, with a much smaller one opposite to it, 
both bracts and ovary densely clothed with short white partially deflexed hairs, the 
bracts and ovary green, the former marked with blotchy purple spots, the latter 
with smaller purple dots. Flowers bluntly triangular in outline, very distinct im 
character, three inches across the petals ; dorsal sepal nearly circular, somewhat 
concave, creamy white with broken longitudinal veins in the central portion, the 
two sides plain, but appearing blotched from the whole back surface being marked 
with irregular lines and patches of dark purple, hairy on the outer side, especially 
near the edges and rib; the lateral united sepals smaller, ovate, similarly marked 
outside ; petals deflexed, roundish oblong, spreading, flat, ciliate, white, with dark 
purple spots dispersed in broken and ‘not very regular lines, but fairly covering the 
ace; lip or pouch barely an inch long, ovate, rounded at the end, white, marked 
over with finer dots or points of dark purple, with similar markings on the inner 
side and the basal auricles, the infolded part produced downwards into an ovate 
Point spotted like the other parts. Staminode medium-sized, heart-shaped, with a 
0 row and a central depression stained with yellow, the rest being white 
Spotted with dark purple. 
Cyprrrepium Gopzrroym, Godefroy-Lebauf, Orchidophile, t. 830, with fig.; Jd., 
On 362, with icon. photogr. ; Flava and ae 1884, 37, with fig. ; aes 
Malogue, 1884, 18, with fic.; Garden, xxv. 396, with fig.; Williams, Orch 
Growers Manual, 6 ed., 245 : 
thie charming introduction will be appreciated by all admirers of this singular 
oa now numerous group of Orchids, many of whom will no doubt be glad to add 
. beg their collections. It is one of the most beautiful of the spotted forms, and 
will be most useful for crossing with other kinds, for if some good spotted hy ae 
ean be produced they will be a great acquisition. We already have some spore 
noms in Cypripedium concolor, and the charming C. niveum, but in our present 
subject the flowers are much more freely and_ beautifully marked, while the oe 
Nself is of dwarf habit, like the two species just referred to. es aati vs 
M Godefroy -Lebeeuf, of Argenteuil, France, for the introduction of this charming 
hee he has named in compliment to his wile. 
