CYPIUPEDIUM. 



233 



dots. . . 

 stall " (J 



CYPEIPEDI0M BELLATDLUM. 



rom the Gardeners' Chronicle.') 



very free growing plant, thus difEering from all the other kinds belonging to 

 this section; flowers during the summer months—Native country not stated. 



Fig. — Lindetiia, iv. t. 149 ; 

 Joii.rn. of Hurt., 1888, xri. p. 443, 

 f. GO ; Vcttc¥.i Man. Orch. PI., iv. 

 p. 15 ; ReilueBorticole, 1S89, p. 201, 

 f . 53 ; Gard. Chron., 3rd ser., 1888, 

 iii. p. 747, f. 99 ; Id., 1890, vii. 

 p. 556, f. 89. 



C. BELLATULUM LUTEO- 

 PURPUREUM, O'^nere.— "The 

 entire ground colour is pale 

 aprioot-yellow. . . . The sepals 

 and petals have fewer purple 

 markings than the ordinary 

 form, and the blotches are 

 irregular in shape, and often 

 run into each other ; they are 

 also confined to the inner two- 

 thirds of each segment nearest 

 to the column. The exterior 

 of the labellum is unspotted, 

 but the interior and the un- 

 folded side lobes have purple 

 It has flowered two years with Gr. W. Law-Schofield, Esq., Eawten- 

 . O'Brien in Gardeners' Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1898, xiv. p. 179). 



C. BERENICE, Bolfe. — A handsome hybrid raised by Capt. Vipan, Stibington 

 Hall, Wansford, between C Roehellinii and C. Lowii. " Dorsal sepal elliptical- 

 ovate, acute, margin reflexed at base, 2^ inches long by 1^ inch wide, base and 

 centre pale bright green, rest white, a little suffused with blush, a blotch of dark 

 purple at extreme base, then several distinct spots, and abo"Ve this se*en bands, 

 all of the same colour, which rapidly thin out, and arc soon lost above the 

 middle; petals drooping, over 5 inches long, ^ inch wide, spirally twisted, a 

 little narrowed near apex; lower third pale bright green, with medium-sized 

 purple-brown blotches, rest light maroon, a little deeper near margin ; lip sub- 

 compressed, 2 inches long, pale yellow green, a little veined and sufEused with 

 olive-green on front and sides, side lobes unspotted ; staminode obcordate- 

 oblong, palest whitish-green, closely reticulated all over with bright green 

 nerves, convex margin hairy '' (R. A. Eolfe, in Gardeners' Chronicle, 3rd ser., 

 1891, ix. p. 136).— Garden hrjhrid. 



C. BINOTII — See C. vittatum. 



C. BOISSIERIANUM, Bchi.f.— This species is allied to C. Hartwegii and has 

 very handsome large flowers. The sepals are covered with a network of green 

 veins on a lighter ground of the same colour, edges undulate ; the petals are 

 4 to 5 inches long, distinctly twisted and undulate at the margins ; lip brownish- 

 green spotted in the upper portion. A wonderful species. — Peru. 



FlQ.—Xenia OrcUdaeea,i. p. 176. t. 62; L' OrnUdophile. 1888, P. 48 : Gardeners' 

 Clirnnkic, 3rd ser., 1837, i. p. 143, f. 33 : Journ. of Hort., 1887, xiv. p. 91, f. 14. 

 Syn. — Selenepidinm Bolssierianum. 



