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with fifteen to sixteen green veins on each side the median veins ; the area 

 around the outer veins is washed with purple ; the side sepals form a narrow 

 ligulate acute body, with eleven green nerves, nearly as long as the lip, which 

 would be that of G. harhatum, were it not for its more conical sac ; deflexed 

 petals ligulate, dilatate, acute, densely ciliate at the margins, brownish-purple 

 on the anterior part, full of green veins, with a dark purple median nerve on 

 the superior half. There are some rather obscure spots on the base towards 

 the upper sepal; the staminode is transverse, with a short uncinate a.ntrorse 

 tooth at each side, and a dark purple one in the middle; the usual green 

 areolae are to be seen each side of the mid line" (H. G. Beicheiibach, in 

 Gardeners Ghronide, 3rd ser., 1887, ii. p. 552). — Garden hyhrid. 



C. DESBOI^IANUM, Hort. Belg. — -A cross between C. venustmn and 0. 

 Boxallii atratum. We have not seen this hybrid, but it is described by Signor 

 Angelo Pucci in his work on Oypripediums : — " Dorsal sepal yellowish-green, 

 shaded with white, distinctly spotted with black, and slightly bordered with 

 creamy white ; petals large, undulated on the superior part, clear yellow, 

 passing to mahogany red, shaded with copper colour; in the superior half 

 olive-yellow, veined with green, and marked with large black spots in the 

 centre and at the base ; lip large, elongated, reddish-maroon towards the 

 mouth, olive-green, veined with emerald-green at the extremity, bordered with 

 golden-yellow at the opening ; leaves broad, short, strongly spotted with 

 reddish-brown at the base. — Garden hybrid. 



Fig. — Lindenla, vii. t. 277. 



C. "DE WITT SMITH," leoZ/e.— " This is a hybrid, raised in the estabUsh- . 

 ment of Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., of Clapton, from C. Spicerianum as the seed 

 parent, and C. Lowii. It was exhibited by them at the Show of the Royal 

 Botanic Society on June 19th, 1889, when it was awarded a Botanical Certificate. 

 The leaves are wholly green, narrow, and much resemble those of G. Lotrii, 

 while the scape, some 15 inches high, bears two flowers which are tolerably 

 intermediate between those of the two parents; The upper sepal is orbicular 

 ovate, the margins a little reflexed near the base, and conduplicate near 

 the sub-acute apex ; colour, centre and base pale green, spotted and veined with 

 purple-brown, the broad margin cream-white, with a few traces of light purple, 

 while a narrow purple-brown band extends from base to apex ; lower sepal 

 elliptical ovate, pale green ; petals 2f inches long, a little narrowed below, and 

 the upper margin undulate, bright green on lower half, with numerous purple- 

 brown spots passing into light rosy-purple above. Lip dark olive green in 

 front, lighter behind ; staminode obcordate, light purple, with a few green 

 markings in the centre, margin not undulate; the vegetative organs sliow a 

 considerable approach to those of G. Lowii, while the elongation of the petals 

 and the shape of the staminode are also derived from the same source; the 

 shape and colour of the upper sepal, with its median purple band, the undulate 

 upper margin of the petals, the numerous siaall spots, and the colour of the 

 staminode, show an approximation to C. Spicerianum. Altogether it is a bright 

 and attractive little plant, and bears the name, by request of Messrs. Hugh Low 

 & Co., of De Witt S. Smith, Esq., of Lee, Mass., U.S.A., who is an ardent 

 admirer of Orchids generally, and especially of the genus Gypripedium" 

 (R. A. Rolfe, in Gardeners' Ghronide, 3rd ser., 1889, vi. p. 6). 



