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PL, DLXXI. 
CYPRIPEDIUM x PAULI worr. 
Mr. PAUL MITEAU’S CYPRIPEDIUM. 
CYPRIPEDIUM. Vide Lindenia, 1, p. 27. 
Cypripedium X Pauli, Hybridum inter C. insigne Chantini et C. villosum Boxalli artificiosa fecundatione apud 
exc. G. MITEAU productum. 
Bee ypripedium x Pauli first appeared in 1894, having been obtained by 
é@i Mr. G. Mrteau, the well-known Belgian amateur, by fertilising 
Ad Cc. insigne Chantinii with the pollen of C. villosum Boxallii. It was 
shown at a Meeting of the OrcHipsEeNnNneE on January 14, when it received a First 
Class Diploma of Honour. At the following Meeting on February 11, the raiser 
exhibited a new and more highly coloured form of it, which was awarded a First 
Class Certificate of Merit, under the varietal name of éximium. 
The crossing of C. insigne with C. villosum is one of the most fortunate in the 
genus, and it is also the source of the largest number of diverse forms. Thus, 
in the year following the first flowering, Mr. G. Mrrzau again exhibited at a 
Meeting of the Brussels Society a series of hybrids raised from the same cross, 
which were so distinct, that one would have hardly guessed, unless told before 
hand, that they all had the same origin. Some had a very light colour, like that 
figured in our plate, others were very dark, while the blotches on the upper sepal 
were more or less numerous or scarce, &c. 
These differences are easily explained when it is remembered that the two 
parents, and particularly C. imsigne, are extremely polymorphous; and it will 
suffice to show the wide range, to mention that C. Sallieri is generally believed to 
be the result of the same cross which has produced many reputed hybrids. 
C. X Pauli is quite intermediate between its two parents. From C. insigne 
it derives its light colour, good appearance, the clear yellow blotch which covers 
two thirds of the lower portion of the upper sepal, and the broad white band at 
the apex of this segment; while C. Boxalli supplies the large and well-formed 
petals, and the shape of the upper sepal the edges of which are folded backwards at 
the base. The magnificent cluster of purple-brown Dicieee which ae almost 
to the apex of the upper sepal, and assume a more violet tint on a white border, 
remind one a little of both parents, but more especially of C. insigne. The 
influence of C. villosum is shown chiefly in the size of the Rowers ane the form of 
the petals, as is the case in most of the crosses in witek it nee been employed. 
Mr. Grorce Mrreau is one of the principal Cypripedium piety and 
