AUGUST, 1922.} THE ORCHID REVIEW. 227 
CYPRIPEDIUM GODEFROY£E. 
HE elegant plant known as Cypripedium Godefroye has always been 
a subject of interest, for soon after its first appearance questions 
regarding its specific character arose and have been periodically discussed. 
It fell to the lot of an Englishman named Murton to discover this 
Cypripedium, and he sold plants to M. Godefroy, who called at Singapore 
on his return journey from Cochin China in 1876. Murton, however, died 
before the plants were despatched to Europe, consequently they were put 
in charge of another Englishman named Alabaster, but he, falling ill, was 
CYPRIPEDIUM GODEFROY2 LEUCOCHILUM. 
unable to attend to them and they all perished. On recovering his health, 
Alabaster procured more plants which he forwarded to M. Godefroy. 
These were collected on the cliff of a limestone island near the Bird’s Nest 
Islands of Champon, Siam, and in a situation where they were fully 
exposed to the glare of a tropical sun, the difference between the extreme 
day and night temperature being considerable. 
Our illustration is of a fine variety flowering in the well-known collection 
of Richard Ashworth, Esq., Newchurch, Manchester. It will be noted 
that the lip is unspotted in this example, which belongs to the secticn 
