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PL. DXXIX. 
CYPRIPEDIUM x LEBAUDYANUM Hort. 
M. ROBERT LEBAUDY’S CYPRIPEDIUM. 
CYPRIPEDIUM. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 17. 
Cypripedium X Lebaudyanum, Hybridum inter C. philippii tee. ldi artificiosa fecundatione 
productum. 
Cypripedium X Lebaudyanum Horvt., Fourn. Soc, Nat. d’Hort. de France, 1895, p. 338. — Fourn. des Orch., 
VI, p. 185. 
t the present time artificial hybrids are numerous in the Cypripedium 
genus, and some raisers have arrived at the third or fourth generation. 
iii This however does not mean that they have exhausted the whole series 
of crosses which may be obtained from the typical species; and the hybrid which 
we figure to day is a striking proof of this, for it is certainly one of the most 
interesting which have been obtained in the genus. 
C. x Lebaudyanum is the result of a cross between two of the most 
distinct species of Cypripedium that exist, both possessing great merit; if their 
crossing be of recent date, when C. Spicerianum, C. barbatum, C. callosum, 
_C. insigne and several Selenipedium number already a long and numerous 
progeny, we must not be surprised; as both are relatively rare, and moreover 
of rather slow growth. 
C. philippinense is held in high repute; it has been already figured in the 
Lindenia, and we need not introduce it to our readers. It belongs to the section 
which comprises C. praestans and C. Rothschildianum; the flowers of these plants 
grow in racemes of extreme beauty; but they are of slower growth than the 
Selenipedium and certain species from continental Asia, very common at the 
present time. It is extremely probable that its hybrids will be more rustic and 
more vigorous; our opinion is not founded on theory, or on horticultural 
analogies only, but on the example of C. selligerum, the result of a cross with 
C. philippinense, and which has been so abundantly multiplied that at the present 
time it figures in almost every collection. 
C. Haynaldianum is still less common than C. philippinense, and is of 
rare distinction. It is a species bearing flowers in racemes, but quite distinct 
from the preceding group, and whose only analogue is C. Lowi. Like in the latter 
the petals are narrow, drooping, spathulate and slightly convolute; but the 
dorsal sepal is gracefully blotched instead of being uniformly of a yellowish 
green, suffused with dull brown at the base. 
