CYPRIPEDIUM SCHRODERA. 
[PLaTE 196.] 
Garden Hybrid. 
Terrestrial, Stems short, bearing a tuft of deep green foliage below, and a 
branched inflorescence above. Leaves a foot long or more, strap-shaped, taper 
pointed, and spreading. Scape or Flowering stem taller than the leaves, branched, 
densely pubescent, bearing about five large and highly coloured flowers, with 
compressed glabrous semi-ovate spathaceous  subfaleate bracts, becoming smaller 
upwards, greenish, blotched with purple. Flowers large, solitary, very distinct in 
aspect; sepals (dorsal) ovate, two inches long and an inch broad, downy on both 
surfaces, flushed with rose and faintly veined with olive-green, the central and 
stouter veins tinted with rose, the lower one broadly ovate obtuse concave; petals 
deflexed, about four inches long, half an inch broad ‘at the base, tapering gradually 
to a long narrow point, of a purplish rosy hue, deeper outside, and becoming . paler 
inside near the base, ciliate at the edge, hairy inside at the base especially on the 
lower side, the hairs deep purple; lip large, an inch broad and nearly two inches 
long, oblong, very obtuse, the opening about an inch deep, dark purplish rose or 
dull crimson, somewhat veiny with deeper rose, the anterior edge crenulate, the 
broadly infolded fleshy edges creamy white, with brown spots, the inner surface 
white spotted with rose, and covered with short stiff hairs. | Staminode fleshy, 
transversely oblong, with a short claw, the front edge with a central apiculus, 
where it is recurved against the tongue-shaped lower portion, creamy white, with a 
whisker-like fringe of deep purple hairs behind, and on the lower side a fleshy 
bluntly-triangular process having its upper surface hollowed out, and set thickly on 
both surfaces with short stiff hairs. 
_ CypripepIuM Scuréper™, Reichenbach fil., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, xix., 432; 
Williams, Orchid Grower's Manual, 6 ed., 256. 
We now introduce to our readers one of the many hybrid forms of Cypripedium 
that have been raised within the past few years, and amongst which there are many 
fine subjects that will be real acquisitions to our collections. The Lady’s Slippers 
are very useful for the bright colours of their flowers, and also for their lasting 
qualities ; moreover, most of them are easily cultivated. The one we now illustrate 
is a great improvement on any of the previous forms of the C. longifolium section ; 
others have been raised that were improvements on those we formerly had, but 
C. Schridere is far in advance of them all, and is no doubt a grand acquisition. 
It was raised by Mr. Seden, in the Nurseries of Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, who 
have been very successful in producing many new and distinct hybrid forms. Some 
account of the experiments carried out in this establishment are referred to in the 
very elaborate paper read by Mr. Harry J. Veitch, at the Orchid Conference held at 
