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Rie CCCOVAT. 
CYPRIPEDIUM x LAWREBEL norr. 
CYPRIPEDIUM. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, p. 31. 
Cypripedinm X Lawrebel, Hybridum inter Cypripedium Lawrenceanum Q et C, bellatulum o% artificiose productum. 
Cypripedium X Lawrebel Hort. Gard. Chron., 1892, i, pp. 502 (Lawrebellum), 560, 561, fig. 82 (Laurebel), — 
Journ. Hort., 1892, i, p. 294, 295, fig. 50 (Lawrebel). — Orchid Review, I, pp. 15, 351, 359- 
he superb hybrid figured in the annexed plate was raised in the 
collection of Sir TRevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Dorking, from 
Lg Cypripedium Lawrenceanum crossed with the pollen of C. bellatulum. It 
was exhibited at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society on April r2th., 1892, 
when it was deservedly awarded a First-class Certificate, under the name of 
C. X Lawrebellum. It was described in the Gardeners’ Chronicle as « a most beau- 
tiful thing with flowers shaped more like those of C. Lawrenceanum than the 
other parent. The whole flower was of a rich rosy crimson, with a tinge of green 
at the base of the sepals and petals, and a pure white margin to the upper 
sepal. The petals were spotted with chocolate colour and there were numerous 
purplish-brown lines radiating from the base of the upper sepal. Foliage like 
some forms of C. Lawrenceanum, but with the markings closer or smaller in 
pattern. “ Shortly afterwards it was figured in the same work as C. X Laurebel. 
The name.is an abbreviated form of the combined names of the two parent 
species, at first used with the Latin termination, but afterwards changed into the 
vernacular, though it is not clear why it should have been written with the 
letter “ u, ” instead of “ w, ” in the latter form, unless by a slip. 
A number of plants were raised, which, as is usual in the case of hybrids, 
have shown some degree of variation between themselves, some of them incli- 
ning most to the characters of C. Lawrenceanum, and others to those of C. bella- 
tulum. The first which flowered produced a single-flowered scape, but with 
increased strength some of them have developed twin-flowered ones. One of 
them also produced a flower in which the lateral sepals were free, as recorded 
in the Orchid Review, I, p. 351. 
It is a robust grower, as might be inferred from the character of the two 
parent species, and the flowers are large and very handsome, as may be seen in 
the annexed plate, which has been taken from materials kindly communicated 
by Sir Trevor Lawrence. Another inflorescence now before me, from the same 
source, bears two flowers, the lower one with the dorsal sepal 2 */, inches across, 
and the petals 2 ‘/, inches long by 1 inch broad, the upper one slightly smaller. 
They show an unmistakeable combination of characters derived from the two 
parents, though the seed parent seems to have exerted the stronger influence as 
(Wal 
Us 
Ue 
Mo. Bot. Garden, 
1895. 
