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ciliate; pouch IJ inch in length and nearly 1 inch broad, maroon-purple in 

 front veined longitudinally by a deeper shade. Staminode very large, ^ inch 

 wide and f inch deep, of an intense deep purple-maroon. — Garden hyhrid. 



¥m.—Jburn. of Hort., 1892, xxiv. p. 293, f. 50 ; Gavd. Cliron., 3rd ser., 1892, xi. p. 560, 

 f. 82 ; Orchid Allmm,ii\. t. 



CYPEIPEDIUM LAWHEBEL. 



(From tla.a Journal of Ilortieulturc.') 



C. LAWRENCEANUM, Uchh. f. — This remarkably handsome species was 

 introduced by Mr. F. W. Burbidge when collecting for Messrs. Veitch & 

 Sons, and was named in honour of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., a gentleman 

 whose great love of Orchids fully entitles him to such a compliment. It is 

 one of the stemless kinds, with distichous broadly oblong acute channelled 

 leaves, about 1 foot long, and of a most ornamental character, being tessellated 

 with a bright whitish-green on a dark green ground, the markings having a 

 very distinct and striking appearance. The flowers are produced singly or 

 in pairs on an upright purple downy scape, and are large and showy, the 

 dorsal sepal being very broadly ovate, white striped with numerous shining 

 broad purplish lines ; the petals horizontal, broadly linear-oblong, about \ inch 

 wide and 2^ inches long, ciliate, green, tinged with purple at the tip, the margins 



