CYPRIPEDIUM. 



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staminode amber, with light hieroglyphic markings, green in the centre; 

 foliage^ fine, ground colour clear green, much mottled with dark blackish- 

 green " (F. Desbois, in Ocirdeners' Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1893, xiii. p. 195). 



C. EURYALE, Veitch.—A cross between C. Lawrenceanum and C. superbiens. 

 " Leaves handsomely tessellated, upper sepal white with a faint flush of pale 

 purple towards the lateral margins, veins green ; lower sepal white with pale 

 green veins ; .petals but slightly deflexed, green with deeper veins, purplist 

 at the tips, and with interrupted lines of blackish warts along the mid-vein 

 and both margins, the latter being hairy; lip purplish-brown, greenish beneath" 

 (Veitch's Manual of OrclMaceous Plants, iv. p. 83).^Garden hybrid. 



Sys.—C. Vcrraetlanum. 



C. EURYANDRUM, Bchh.f.—K very distinct hybrid between 0. Stonei and 

 C. harhatum. The plant is of a robust habit of growth, and has deep green 

 faintly tessellated ligulate leaves, unequally acute at the apex. The flower 

 scapes are stout, and hairy, 

 bearing from two to three 

 flowers, of which the dorsal 

 sepal is very broad, roundish 

 and convex, white stained with 

 crimson and striped with deep 

 crimson-purple and green, and 

 the broadly ligulate ciliatc 

 petals are much longer than 

 those of C. harhatum, whitish 

 at the base, with many large 

 purplish spots throughout, 

 mostly ranged in lines ; the 

 lip is like that of C. harhatum, 

 but much larger, brownish- 

 crimson. It was raised by 

 Mr. Seden, in Messrs. Veitch's 

 nursery at Chelsea, and flowers 

 ill the autumn months. — ■ 

 Garden hybrid. 



FlG.— VciMi, Cat., 18S0, p. 10. 

 with fig, ; T/ie frank'n. xix.. p. 630. 

 with fig. ; L'Orc!tidop/(ui: 1883, 

 p. 764; Orchid Albwvi, vii. t. 301 : 

 I'l-itcli's Man. Orch. PL, iv. p, 83 ; 

 Joxirn. of Sort, 1888, xvi. p. 131, 

 1 18. 



C. EXUL, O'Brien.— This 

 novelty was sent to us by Mr. 

 N. Ridley, the Director 



H. 



J.WMilumdd. 



of the Botanic Gardens at 



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CYPBIPEDIUM EXUL. 

 (From the Gardeners' Chronicle 



Singapore, under the name of U. insigne siamense, and flowered in this country 

 for the first time in 1892, proving to be quite distinct from C. insigne, and was 

 consequently named as a new species. The foliage is similar in form to that of 



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