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Bie CCCOVAE 
CYPRIPEDIUM x CONCO-LAWRE uort. 
CYPRIPEDIUM. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, p. 31. 
Cypripedium X conco-Lawre. Hybridum inter Cypripedium concolor 9 et C. Lawrenceanum oX artificiose productum. 
Cypripedium > conco-Lawre Hort. Gard. Chron., 1893, i, p. 206. — Fourn. Hort., 1893, i, p. 193, fig. 41. — 
Orchid Review, I, pp. 15, 94, 351. 
nan article descriptive of the fine collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, 
Bart., Burford, Darking, published in the Orchid Review (vol. I, p. 15), 
#) speaking of hybrid Cypripediums, the following note occurs : “ Yet 
another, which may reasonably be expected to be a fine hybrid, is C. concolor 
crossed with the pollen of C. Lawrenceanum. Its flowers are nearly open. In 
habit it resembles C. concolor, but the foliage is longer, broader, and more 
mottled. It should prove equal or superior to the beautiful C. y¢ tessellatum 
porphyreum, which was derived from C. concolor? and C. barbatum or.” Shortly 
afterwards, on February 14 th., 1893, it was exhibited at a meeting of the 
Royal Horticultural Society, under the name of C. X conco-Lawre, and received 
an Award of Merit, when it was further noted (p. 94) — “ the flowers are 
creamy white speckled with rose, and somewhat resemble those of C. X Mar- 
shalhanum. ” A woodcut was given in the pages of the Fournal of Horticulture, 
as above cited. The scape was two-flowered, the uppermost flower not being 
expanded. On October 10th. following it was again exhibited, on this occasion 
showing two flowers fused together, like Siamese twins, which excited much 
comment from lovers of the curious. 
It is a decidedly handsome hybrid, as the annexed plate, which was 
prepared from materials kindly forwarded by Sir Trevor Lawrence, will show. 
In general habit it most resembles the seed parent, also in the colour of the 
flowers, though in shape they are more nearly intermediate between the two 
parents. The dorsal sepal is very broadly ovate, light creamy yellow lightly 
suffused and veined with light purple. The petals are oblong and rather broad, 
similar to the dorsal sepal in colour, with the addition of a few light rose-purple 
spots, chiefly on the basal half. The lip is about intermediate in shape, light 
creamy yellow in colour with some darker veins, and the staminode most like 
that of C. Lawrenceanum. 
It is a charming and delicately coloured hybrid, which can best be com- 
pared with the beautiful C. x Marshallianum, a hybrid derived from C. venustum 
pardinumg and C. concolor. Hybrids derived from C. concolor and its allies, 
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