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CYPRIPEDIUM CHAMBERLAINIANUM. 
HE adjoining figure represents a fine plant of this interesting species 
flowering in the collection of J. T. Bennett Poé, Esq., Holmewood, 
Waltham Cross. The centre spike, which is supported by a stick, produced 
no less than twenty-seven flowers, two of which are shown in the 
photograph, while four additional buds prove that unusually large numbers 
of blooms are borne from time to time on the same spike. This species is 
a native of Sumatra, and was introduced to cultivation by Messrs. Sanders 
in 1892. One of the wild inflorescences obtained by them showed thirty-two 
bracts, representing an equal number of flowers, but, of course, they were 
CYPRIPEDIUM CHAMBERLAINIANUM. 
elongates. Our 
not all open at the same time, for the spike gradually 
same time, while 
illustration shows a spike carrying three flowers open at the 
other plants have given as many as four, which is rather exceptional. The 
dorsal sepal is yellowish-green, with rosy-purple lines, and with a profusion 
of rosy-purple spots at the base. The lower sepal is similar, but smaller, 
and both are strongly pubescent or hairy on the back. The petals are 
Spreading, curled and twisted, and. of greenish-colour with crimson-brown 
blotching, the margins undulated and furnished with white hairs at the 
edges. The labellum is white, densely spotted with rose-colour on the 
lower portion, and the staminode dull green. At Messrs. Sanders’ request 
it was named in honour of the late Mr. Joseph Chamberlain. 
