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C. LUCIENIANUM, Hort. Belg.— This new hybrid is said to be the result of 

 a cross of C. villosum and C. oenanthwm. There appears to be some doubt as 

 to the parentage being as stated; it is, however, according to the plate in 

 the Lindenia, a showy thing. The petals and lip resemble those of C. villosvmi, but 

 the dorsal sepal is quite distinct, nearly round, heavily blotched with blackish- 

 purple, green at the base, broadly margined with white. — Oarden hybrid. 



Fig.— Lindenia, viii. t. 362. 



OyPKIPEDIUM LOWII. 



(From the Gardeners' Chronicle.') 



C. NIACFARLANEI, Krdnzlin.—" This very beautiful new hybrid was 

 raised in the nursery of Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, and flowered 

 in the month of August in the well-known collection of Cypripediums 

 of R. H. Measures, Esq., The Woodlands, Streatham. It is the off- 

 spring of 0. calophyllum and C. Spicerianum,, the latter being the pollen 

 plant. The new plant has the size and the beautiful upper sepal of the 

 male, but more flat, and not so revolute on the edges. The labellnm, and to 

 some extent the staminodium, look perfectly like the corresponding parts in 



