268. 



orchid-geower's manual. 



C. INSIGNE HORSMANIANUNI, Hchh. f.—" The odd sopal is blunf, cuneatc^ 

 oblong, and the upper part is quite white, the lower, like the remainder of the 

 flower, has likewise the usual cplours; the lower sepals are narrow, oblong- 

 ligulate, acute ; the petals are directed forwards and are spreading at the top ; 

 the lip is very remarkable in having a beak in the middle of the mouth and 

 rather low side-partitions" (H. G. Reichenbach, in Gardeners' Chronicle, 3rd scr., 

 1888, iv. p. 693). 



C. INSIGNE ILLUSTRE, Hort. — Under this name a distinct variety was 

 shown by E. J. Measures, Esq., of Camberwell, before the Eoyal Horticultural 

 Society on November 28th, 1893, where it obtained an award of Merit. The 

 ground colour is of a clear yellow, having light chestnut-brown spots on the 

 sepals, petals, and upper portion of the lip, and. a few crimson spots on the white 

 tip of the dorsal sepal. 



CYPEIPEDIUM INSIGNE MAULEI. 



(From the Gardeners' ChronieU.') 



C. INSIGNE LONGISEPALUM, Hort. Sander.— Ihis variety differs from ■ 

 the type by the long narrow dorsal sepal of a clear green, shaded and veined 

 with brown at the base, and the absence of spots. 



