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the worse for the tiger, however, for Mr. Forstermann not only returned 
with a large number of specimens of C. spicerianwm, but with a very 
nice tiger-skin also, which became an ornament of Mrs. Sander’s drawing- 
room. “Thus it happened that on a certain Thursday a small pot of 
C. spicercanum was sold, as usual, for sixty guineas, at Stevens’ auction 
rooms; on the Thursday following all the world could buy fine plants at 
a guinea.” ‘To-day the amateur can possess a spécimen at one-half or 
one-quarter that sum. 
CYPRIPEDIUM ARGUS (Argus). Height 1 foot. Leaves 
yellowish grey, variegated with dark green. Flowers 5 or 
6 inches across, white, striped with green and purple, the petals also 
studded with purple eye-like spots ; pouch (or lip) broad, purple-brown; 
March and April. Stove. Introduced from the Philippines, 1873. 
C, BARBATUM (bearded). Height 1 foot. Leaves irregularly blotched 
with darker green. Flowers solitary, white, flecked with purple; the 
petals with a series of shining warts along the upper edge, giving rise to 
tufts of black hairs; pouch blackish purple, large ; spring and summer. 
Stove. Introduced from Malay Peninsula, 1840. 
C. Boxa.it (Boxall’s). Flowers one or two on a scape, greenish 
yellow, marked with white, and spotted with purple-brown ; pouch conical, 
with channeled upright horns. Stove. Introduced from Burma, 1877. 
C. CALCEOLUS (little shoe). Common Lady’s Slipper. Height 12 to 
18 inches. Flowers usually solitary, reddish brown or maroon; pouch 
pale yellow; May. Rare hardy native. Should be grown in compost of 
loam and peat. 
C. CANDIDUM (white). Height 1 foot. Flowers greenish brown; 
pouch white; June. Hardy. Should be grown in boggy peat. 
C. CHAMBERLAINIANUM (Chamberlain’s). “Scapes tall with hood-like 
bracts and numerous flowers of a dull rose colour, flushed with brown 
and yellow ; the petals are spirally twisted, like a corkscrew. Sumatra, 
1892. 
C. CHARLESWORTHII (Charlesworth’s). Resembles C. spicerianum, 
but the flowers are of a soft rosy mauve colour, and the upper sepal is 
large and flat. Burma, 1892. 
C. CONCOLOR (one colour), Like C. nivewm, but the flowers are 
coloured pale yellow. Stove. Moulmein. 
C. GoDEFROY (Mrs. Godefroy’s) and C. BELLATULUM (somewhat 
pretty) belong to the same group as C. concolor, but have numerous large 
spots.of brown-purple on the white or yellow flowers. 
C. HIRSUTISSIMUM (most hairy). Height 1 foot. Flowers solitary 
or in pairs ; often 6 inches across; green, tinged with purple, and dotted 
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Principal Species. 
