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CYPRIPEDIUM LAWREBEL.”"* “4° 
[Pare 498.] 
Garden Hybrid. 
Epiphytal or terrestrial. Leaves springing from the crown of the roots, broadly 
oblong, acute, distichous, and radical, from six to nine inches in length, and from 
two to two and a-half inches broad, of a deep green colour, and heavily tessellated 
with yellowish green on the upper surfaces. Scape solitary, erect, about a foot in 
height, proceeding from the axil of the leaves, with am acute, oblong, sheathing 
bract near the top, from which the bloom emerges. Flowers very large, of 
beautiful form, very showy, and thick in texture; dorsal sepal large, broadly ovate, 
white, with deep vinous purple veins extending almost to the margin, and heavily 
suffused with rich rosy crimson, but leaving a pure white border, greenish towards 
the base ; lateral sepals small, oblong, greenish white, with purplish crimson veins ; 
petals broadly oblong, slightly deflexed, greenish at the base, of a rich es crimson, 
much darker towards the ends, and heavily spotted with large and small spots of 
blackish purple, these usually appear in radiating lines; lip very large, pouch- 
shaped, deep crimson-purple above, yellowish green below, inside greenish yellow, 
with dark purple spots. | Staminode wax-like, and of a deeper crimson-purple than 
the pouch. 
Cypripepium LawrepeL, Lawrence, Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1892, xi, p. 502, as 
C. Lawrebellum; Id., 1892, xi., p. 560, fig. 82. Williams’ Orchid- Grower's 
Manual, 7th ed., with woodcut, p. 273. 
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Without doubt this is one of the most beautiful hybrids ever raised, for 
although during the past few years this genus has been largely worked upon 
with such grand success by the hybridist, the subject of our present illustration 
must certainly rank with the finest, and take a first place in the best collections. 
This beautiful hybrid is also of great interest inasmuch as it is one of the 
first crosses with Cypripedium bellatulum. It was raised in the gardens of 
Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., at Burford Lodge, Dorking, and was obtained by 
crossing ©. Lawrenceanum with the pollen of C. bellatulum, and we must 
certainly congratulate this skilled amateur upon the results of his work. , 
Cypripedium Lawrebel first flowered during April of 1892, and was exhi - 
at the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society held at the Drill Hall, James 
Street, Westminster, on the 12th of that month, when it is needless to remark oes 
it was the centre of very great attraction, and was unanimously awarded a Firat 
Class Certificate. The first seedling that opened its flowers from this cross, 
resembled more the pollen parent, but others that have flowered since partake — 
after C. Lawrenceanum both in size, manner of growth, and the colour of their leaves. 
