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BV DEX; 
CYPRIPEDIUM x MASSAIANUM weatuers. 
THE DUC DE MASSA’S CYPRIPEDIUM. 
CYPRIPEDIUM. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 17. 
Cypripedium X Massaianum. Hybridum inter C. X superciliare et C. Rothschildianum artificiosa fecundatione 
productum. 
Cypripedium X Massaianum Weatuers, in Gard. Chron., n. s., XIV (1893), p. 267, c. ic. 
| Ithough perhaps not comparable in beauty with C. x Morganiae which 
has recently been figured in this work, C. x Massaianum nevertheless 
has some features in common with that magnificent hybrid, and belongs 
to the same section. The differences between the two are evident and need not 
be specified. But the relationship rests upon the basis that the two plants spring 
from a cross effected between parents, very dissimilar in each case, but still more 
or less allied one to the other. On the one hand we have C. Stonei and 
C. Rothschildianum more or less similar in structure, and distinct in colour, and 
on the other hand C. superbiens and C. x superciliare, the latter being derived 
from the former, and both having as characteristic features the cylindrical 
brownish red lip rounded at apex, the wide and beautifully blotched petals, the 
erect poise, and the regular oval outline of the upper sepal. 
These diverse features are all combined in C. x Massaianum, and it may 
be said that the flower of this hybrid is almost such as one might have imagined 
it before its appearance. The petals however remind one more of C. x superciliare 
or its ancestor C. superbiens, being broad, slightly deflexed, and decorated with 
numerous blackish purple blotches. 
The upper sepal is yellowish white, longitudinally traversed by numerous 
purple red veins, and somewhat heavily stained with green for two thirds of its 
height from the base upwards. The lower sepal is almost as large as the upper, 
while the huge crimson red lip is veined with brownish red. The staminode is 
much more like that of C. x superciliare than that of C. Rothschildianum but still a 
slight resemblance to the latter is apparent. 
This beautiful plant was exhibited for the first time on July 11. 1893 at the 
Royal Horticultural Society’s Gardens, Chiswick, when it received an Award of 
Merit. 
It is named after the Duc pe Massa one of the principal French amateurs. 
Our drawing was made from a plant shown by M' Atrrep Van Imscuoor, the 
well-known Ghent amateur, at a meeting of the OrcuipEenne last October. 
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