CYPRIPEDIUM CONCO-LAWRE. 
[PLaTe 506]. 
Garden Hybrid. 
Terrestrial. Acaulescent. Leaves channelled, oblong, acute, six inches or more 
long, two inches wide, of a deep green, tessellated with greyish green. Scapes 
eight inches or more in height, usually two-flowered. Flowers bold and handsome, 
measuring about four and a half inches in diameter; dorsal sepal measures nearly two 
inches in breadth and two inches in height, of a delicate shade of rosy purple, 
veined and more or less reticulated with rich vinous purple, the apical portion 
delicately shaded witk yellow, which colour extends down the middle almost to the 
ase, where a faint tinge of green is scarcely visible, numerous minute purple dots 
covering the basal region ; petals nearly two and a half inches long, nearly one inch 
broad, of a delicate yellow, passing into vinous rosy purple at the tips and 
margins, veined with the same shade of purple and covered by numerous small 
spots of a blackish purple, principally disposed in lines along or between the nerves; 
the basal part on the upper halves of a yellowish green. Pouch yellow, suffused 
and veined with rosy purple. Staminode large, yellowish green, suffused and 
margined with pale rosy purple. 
Cyprieepitm Conco-Lawre, Lawrence, Gardeners’ Chronicle, 3rd series, 1893, 
xi, p. 206. Journal of Horticulture, 1898, xxvi, p. 193, f. 41. Gardeners’ 
Magazine, 1893, p. 675. Lindenia, ix., t. 408. Orchid Review, 1894, ii, p. 3387, 
fig. 33. 
The name of hybrid Cypripediums is legion, and at the present time they are 
raised by many growers both at home and on the Continent of Europe, and 
again in the United States of America, in such large quantities, that a really 
good hybrid like our present subject is doubly welcome, the more so as it comes 
from two good parents—Cypripedium concolor, figured under plate 302, in the 
seventh volume of this work, and C. Lawrenceanum, figured under plate 22 in 
the first volume. This handsome hybrid was raised by Sir T. Lawrence, Bart., 
at Burford Lodge, Dorking. The leaves most resemble those of C. Lawrenceanum, 
and the plant has the slow-growing propensity of C. concolor. Cypripediums are 
well grown at Burford Lodge, Dorking, Sir Trevor Lawrence’s country seat, and many 
are the hybrids that Sir Trevor has had the good fortune to raise, not only in 
Cypripedes but in Dendrobes, a large series of good free-flowering sorts having 
been gained, some of which we hope to figure at a future time. 
Cypripedium Conco-Lawre has flowers of a very attractive appearance, the 
dorsal sepal measuring two inches across; the colour is of a delicate shade of rosy 
purple. veined. and reticulated with rich vinous purple, and delicately shaded with 
