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CYPRIPEDIUM < MORGANIAE norr. var. BURFORDIENSE nozr. 
Mrs. MORGAN’S CYPRIPEDIUM, BURFORD LODGE VARIETY. 
CYPRIPEDIUM. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 17. 
Cypripedium  Morganiae. Hybridum inter C. superbiens et C. Stonei artificiosa fecundatione productum, 
Cypripedium X Morganiae Hort. — The Garden, 1883, p. 58; Gardeners’ Chron., 1886 (XXVI), p. 243, cum ic., 
et 1890 (VII), p. 545. — Ill. Hort., 1887, p. 16. — Les Orchid. exot., p. 714. — Orch, Alb., VII, pl. 313. 
Var. Burfordiense, Inter C. superbiens et C. Stonei var. apud clarissimum dom, TREVOR LAWRENCE artifi- 
ciose productum. 
Var. Burfordiense Horv., Orch. Rev., 1, p. 41, et passim. 
Var. Burford Lodge Hort. Les Orch. exot., p. 714, et passim. 
ypripedium x Morganiae flowered for the first time thirteen or fourteen 
years ago, and this magnificent hybrid still holds the first rank in the 
genus, notwithstanding the improvements owing to artificial fecunda- 
tion. It is certainly one of the finest of Orchids known, the effect produced 
by the size of its flowers, their superb form, coloration and number is incom- 
parable. They offer some analogy to the famous C. Stonei platytoenium, the king 
of Cypripedium, the one which was classed first in the plebiscit organized by 
the Fournal des Orchidées. 
This resemblance is very striking in the Burfordiense variety, figured on 
the annexed plate, which is the result of a cross between superior varieties, 
and if we do not mistake with C. Stone platytoenium itself. This variety, which 
was obtained in the celebrated collection at Burford Lodge, belonging to Sir 
Trevor Lawrence, has larger flowers of brighter coloration, the petals espe- 
cially are broader and more thickly blotched. It unites the most brilliant qualities 
of the species to which it owes its birth, with more vigour and is more floriferous. 
Orchid raisers have for the last few years made use of C. superbiens and 
C. Stonei for the production of a certain number of new hybrids, nearly all 
remarkable, and presenting to a certain degree the following general charac- 
teristics : in -the descendants of the former, the elegant form, fine blotches 
and broadness of the petals, the fulness and light coloration of the dorsal 
sepal; in the lineage of C. Stonez, the distinguished appearance, the lenght and 
graceful habit of the petals, the ivory coloration of the dorsal sepal, the superb 
shape of the slipper and staminode. 
Amongst these hybrids, several of which are already beginning to be 
very popular, we may quote : 
C. x Youngianum, the result of a cross between C. superbiens and C. phi- 
lippinense. 
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