eae ee ee 
25 
aE 
PL. DXV-DXVI. 
CYPRIPEDIUM X LEEANUM verca VARIETATES . 
Mr. LEE’S CYPRIPEDIUM, DIFFERENT VARIETIES. 
CYPRIPEDIUM. Vide Lindenia, 1, p. 7 
Cypripedium X Leeanum. Descript., vide Lindenia, III, peOr. 
Cypripedium < Leeanum VeEIrcu in Gard. Chron., n. ser. XXI, p. 50 (1884), XXIII, p. 277 (1885, — var, 
superbum) ; Man. Orchid. Pl., part. IV, p. 88 (1889). — L’Orchidoph., 1884, P- 553 1885, pp. 2 et 238, cum tab, 
col.; 1886, p. 137; 1889, p. 85; 1891, p. 3. — PyNAERT in Rev. de PHort. Belg., XI, p. 231, fig. 34 (1885). — 
Gard. Chron., n. ser., XXV, p. 168 (1886); ser. 3, IV, p. 663 (1888, — var. maculatum), V, p. 11 (1889 — var. 
Maesereelianum). — Witutams, Orch, Alb., V, tab. 223 (1886); Orch. Grow. Man., edit. 7» P- 275 (1894). — 
Lindenia, ll, tab. 125 (1887). — Watson and Bran, Orchids, p. 186, fig. 48 (1890). — Pucci Cyprip., p. 134 
(1891). — Reichenbachia, ser. 2, II, Pp. 19, tab. 57 (var. giganteum). — Gard. Mag., 1892, p. 48, cum ic. — 
Gard. and For., V1, p. 117 (1893, — var. ampliatum). — L. Linp., Les Orchid. exot., p. 712 (1894). — Fourn. 
des Orch., VI, p. 381 (1896). 
Cypripedium X Maesereelianum Horv.; Illustr. Hortic., 1889, p. 23, tab. 77. 
Cypripedium X Vallerandi Hort.; Lindenia, V, p. 100 (1889, — nomen tantum), 
Cypripedium X Engelhardtae L. Linp. in Lindenia, VI, P- 93, tab. 285 (1890). 
Paphiopedilum X Leeanum Stet, Orchideenb., p. 474 (1892). ; 
Cypripedium X Albertianum Hort. J. Hye; Rev. de ? Hort. Belg., XIX, p. 3, tab. 1 (1893). — Fourn. des 
Orchid., III, p. 346 (1893). 
Paphiopedium X Albertianum, P. X Engelhardtae, P. x Leeanum, P. X Maesereelianum et P. X Vallerandi 
(Valerandi) Kercu., Livre des Orchid., pp. 475, 478, 480, 481 et 484 (1894). 
Cypripedium < Yvonnae Hort.; Illustr. Hort., XLII, Pp. 23, tab. 26 (1895). — Fourn. des Orchid., VI, p. 382 
(C. X Ivonnae, — 1896). 
hat will the study of Orchids become in a certain number of years, : 
and specially the study of certain kinds, as for instance the Cypripe- 
dium Group, if not only other species and new varieties are introduced 
constantly, but particularly if the varied intercrossing between the forms already 
known be put into daily application ? Most of the primitive types which every 
body agrees on considering as being specifically distinct, will be allied by so 
many intermediairies, that it will become quite impossible to draw an exact 
line of demarcation between them, at least as far as concerns cultivated plants. 
A remarkable example of these almost indefinable varieties, is to be found 
in Cypripedium x Leeanum, of which the splendid double annexed plate repro- 
duces some of the most remarkable forms that have flowered lately in the 
hot-houses of the Horticutture INTERNATIONALE. 
C. Leeanum has been described and figured in 1887, in the Lindenia 
(vol. III, pl. 125), it was raised by crossing C. insigne and C. Spicerianum, | 
two species bearing a certain affinity, but which all botanists consider as being 
perfectly distinct. To show more clearly what each form of the hybrid has 
fan 
Us 
Bie i Ne ties 
asia Maeace 
ve 
