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CYPRIPEDIUM GODEFROYAE covsrr. var. LEUCOCHILUM norr. 
M™ GODEFROY’S CYPRIPEDIUM, WHITE LIPPED VARIETY. 
CYPRIPEDIUM. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 7s 
Cypripedium Godefroyae GobEF., in Orchidoph., t. 830. — Flor. and Pom. 
t. 492. — WILLIAMS Orch. Alb., IV, t. 177. — Bot. Mag., t. 68 
VeITcH, Man. of Orchid. Pl., IV, Pp. 27. 
Var. leucochilum Hort., Gard. Chron., XV (1894), p. 717; Id., p. 815, 
, 1884, p. 37. — The Garden, XXVII, 
76. — Gard. Chron., XXIII, P. 49, cum ic. xyl, — 
cum ic. xyl. 
ypripedium Godefroyae is a species at once very interesting and very 
beautiful, belonging to a small section which is very distinct in habit 
and colouring, and comprises also C. bellatulum, C. concolor and 
C. mveum. 
It was discovered about the year 1876 by an Englishman named. Murton, 
who sold to M. Gopzrroy, a nurseryman of Argenteuil, the plants which he 
had collected, but M. Murron died before the plants were sent home, and they 
were left to the care of another Englishman named ALapasTER, who sent the 
first introductions of this species to M. Goprrroy and to the Royal Gardens, 
Kew. The first Hower was produced at the end of 1884, in the collections of 
Baron Roruscnitp, at Ferriéres and M. Lee, of Leatherhead. 
C. Godefroyae was originally found on a little rocky island, situated near 
the island of Champon, in the northern part of the Malayan gulf. It appears, 
according to the Garden, that it grows only on the western part of the island, 
that is the one facing the Malay peninsula, and never towards the east. Some 
of the plants were collected at only about 15 feet above the level of the sea, 
whence it ranged up to about 80 feet altitude. In this situation the plants are 
in the shade up to about ro o'clock in the morning, and afterwards exposed to 
the direct rays of the tropical sun during the rest of the day. 
C. Godefroyae is rather variable, and in this respect establishes a certain 
transition towards other species of the group to which it belongs. Some of 
its varieties approach rather near to C. bellatulum, still they generally differ 
in the shape of the floral segments, especially of the petals, which have the 
margins undulate, and the apex emarginate. In the foliage, moreover, it is clearly 
distinguished from this species. In habit it is nearly identical with C. niveum, 
in fact it is difficult to distinguish between the two plants though the two flowers 
are very different. 
C. Godefroyae is in colour very analogous with C. bellatulum, with the sepals 
