CYPRIPEDIUM SEDENII CANDIDULUM. 
[PLATE 481.] 
Garden Hybrid. 
Kpiphytal. Acaulescent, quite destitute of pseudobulbs, but producing a quantity 
of long strap-shaped Jeaves, which are persistent, sheathing at the base, channelled 
above, carinate beneath, and of a uniform full green. Scape erect, having numerous 
lateral branches, bearing many flowers, which in the best varieties have a beautiful 
pale ivory-white hue pervading the sepals and petals, and a pink pouch, but in 
other respects we fail to detect any difference in the blooms from the type. 
CYPRIPEDIUM SEDENII CANDIDULUM, Reichenbach fil, in Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
1884, xxi, p. 489. 
CYPRIPEDIUM SEDENII CANDIDULUM, JLindenia, vi., t. 245. 
The variety of the plant which we here figure may be a somewhat high- 
coloured one, but as it is a hybrid that has been obtained by many, both amateurs 
and tradesmen, since the first was raised by Messrs. Veitch and Sons, it is 
difficult to obtain plants with the pure ivory-white flowers, such as the one 
originally sent out in the first place, which was the result of a cross between 
C. Schlimu albiflorwm and C. longifolium. Many of the plants called C. Sedenii 
candidulum are the result of crosses from other plants. 
The plant here figured flowered in our own collection, in the Victoria and 
Paradise Nurseries, in the course of the present year. It was grown in the temperature 
of the East Indian house, and we have observed on several occasions that many of 
these hybrids of Selenipedium do not in the least object to this heat, although 
their parents may have come naturally from places having a much lower temperature 
than is given them under cultivation. The -Selenipediums or the South American 
Slipper family are a very robust class of Orchids, and they have characters which 
we have often thought amply sufficient to thoroughly establish them as a distinct 
genus, but it does not appear to have made any impression upon the majority of 
our Orchidists, although many genera are established upon much finer distinctions. 
These plants, although of robust constitution, require to be well drained, and nothing 
sour or stagnant should be allowed to lie or to gather about them. This should 
be carefully looked to, as upon good drainage we consider success or non-success in 
plant culture depends. Let the soil consist of a mixture of good brown fibrous peat 
and chopped sphagnum moss, with a little turfy light yellow loam added, but the latter 
should have most of the finer particles of soil shaken away, mixing with the whole 
some sharp Bedfordshire sand. During the summer season they require a liberal 
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