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narrower, and of a darker chestnut brown. It was first bloomed by Messrs. E. 

 G. Henderson & Son, and is found in some collections under the name of 

 C. Ohantinii. Flowers in autumn and spring. — Nepaid. 



Fig.— iJpri/e Hart., 1878, p. 130, with tab. [Clumtinii') ; Gard. Chron., N.s., xviii. 

 p. 716, f. 127 ; The Garden, xxi. p. 444, t. 342, right-hand fig. ; Z'OrehidophUe, 1885 

 p. 36, with tab. (^Chanthiii) ; Orchid Album, vi. t. 278. 



SyK. — C insigne Chantinii, HoH. Gall. 



C. INSIGNE SANDERAE, Hort. Batider.—A. beautiful variety imported with 

 others by Messrs. Sander & Co., and named in honour of Mrs. Sander; the 

 dorsal sepal is white in the upper part and at the margins, light yellowish- 

 green at the base with a few small brown spots ; petals undulate, sulphur-yellow. 

 This gem is in the possession of Baron Sir J. H. W. Schroder. 



Fig.— /«!(™. ofHoH.. 1891, xxili. p. 447, f. 84 ; Gard. Chron., 3rd ser., 1891, ix. p. 

 669, f. 96. 



C. INSIGNE WALLACEI, B'ori.— The leaves of this variety are longer and 

 narrower than in the type ; the dorsal sepal is somewhat like that of the variety 

 functatum riolacewm, but the white portion is smaller, and the spots on the 

 dorsal sepal have a reddish-black hue. 



C. lO, Bchh. f. — This splendid hybrid is the result of a cross between 

 t'. Argus and C. Lawrenceanum, and was raised by N. 0. Cookson, Esq., of 

 Wylam-on-Tyne. Leaves similar to those of C. Laivrenceanum, ; scape one- 

 flowered, flowers large and bold ; dorsal sepal broad, sub-rotund, white, streaked 

 alternately with green and rich purple ; inferior sepal much smaller, white, 

 veined with green ; petals strap-shaped, acute, green sufEused with pale purple, 

 and clear pale purple at the tips, the basal portion profusely ornamented with 

 large black wart-like spots ; pouch large and full, brownish-purple, pale-green on 

 the under side. " It is called Jo, in honour of her Royal Highness lo, daughter of 

 King Inachus. lo having smiled in too gracious a way on Jupiter, had the sad 

 fate to be changed into a cow by Juno, for a time, during which herbivorous 

 period of her life she was watched by the hundred-eyed Argus. Now this 

 Gypripedium being like C Argus, I have named it lo, in order to associate the 

 two together " (H. G-. Reichenbach, in Gardeners' Chronicle, n.s., 1886, xxv. 

 p. 488). — Garden hybrid. 



FJG.—Jieicheniackia, i. t. 23 ; lieviie Uort. Beige, 1888, p. 13 (plate). 



C. lO GRANDE, Mort. — A variety suiierior to the preceding, the flower 

 being larger in all its parts. 



C. JAVANICO-SUPERBIENS, 5?e».— This hybrid is a, cross between 

 C javanicmn and C. superhiens, and was raised by M. A. Bleu, of Paris. " Upper 

 sepal pale green, with deeper green veins and whitish margin ; lower sepal much 

 smaller, white with light green veins ; petals green, spotted with blackish warts 

 two-thirds of their length ; the apical third pale rose-purple with fewer spots ; 

 "lip brown in front, pale green beneath, the infolded lobes reddish-brown; 

 staminode pale yellow-green, with deep green markings" (Veitch's Man. Orch. 

 PI., iv. p. 87). — Garden hyhrid. 



