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C. MICROCHILUM, Rchb.f.—A very interesting and pretty hybrid between 

 C. mveiim. and ('. Driiryi. The plant is of compact dwarf habit, with lignlate 

 recurving finely tessellated leaves. The flowers are broader than those of 

 C. niveum, and have the upper sepal roundish, apiculate, white with a central 

 spotted crimson-purple bar, and slight indications of other lines, several dark 

 cinnamon stripes being evident outside ; the petals are broad roundish oblong, 

 white with a dark crimson-purple stripe down the centre, and several lines of 

 small spots on each side ; and the lip is very small, laterally compressed, white 

 veined with pale green. Raised by Mr. Seden.— Garden hybrid. 



'Pi(i-—yciMi, Cut., 1884, p. 19, with fig. ; Lindenia, ii. t. 50 ; Vcitch's Jliiri. Ovch. PL, 

 iv. p. 92. 



C. MINERVA, Eolfe. — '"A new hybrid Oypripedum from R. H. Measures, 

 Esq., of the Woodlands, Streatham, raised by crossing (7. venustum and 

 U. Harrisianuni elegans, the former being the seed parent. This particular 

 combination does not appear to have been effected before, and I therefore 

 propose to name it as above. Like most hybrids, it is tolerably intermediate 

 in character, though the influence of G. venustum is perhaps the most strongly 

 marked. The sepals are much as in C. venustum, but the upper one has a band 

 of purple in the centre and a few other traces of the same colour near the base ; 

 the petals, lip, and staminode also closely approach C. venustum in shape ; the 

 petals are of a pleasing shade of light maroon-purple, with greenish nerves, the 

 middle nerve very dark purple, as are also the lateral nerves of the superior 

 half of each petal near the base ; the lip is dark maroon-purple in front, the 

 nerves closely resembling those of 0. venustum, in. char ncter, the spots on the 

 side lobes are large, and the markings of the inside of the lip very beautiful ; 

 the staminode is light brownish-purple, a little marbled with a paler shade, 

 and the whole is of a very shining appearance. The various modifications 

 mentioned are, of course, in the direction of C. Harrisianum, itself a hybrid 

 between C. harhatum and G. villosum, so that three distinct species are con- 

 cerned in the parentage of the present novelty " (R. A. Rolfe, in Gardeners' 

 Ghroniclc, 3rd ser., 1889, vi. p. 464). — Garden hybrid. 



C. MINOS, Hui-t. Veitcli. — ^By crossing G. Spicerianum with G. Arthurianum 

 a beautiful hybrid was obtained by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, and exhibited by 

 them before the Royal Horticultural Society on November 28th, 1893. The 

 dorsal sepal is pure white, shaded with purple at the base ; petals yellow, tinged 

 with brown, in shape resembling those of G. Arthurianum. Lip dull yellow, 

 shaded with brown. — Garden hybrid. 



C. MOENSIANUM.— Sec C. AiiGUs Moensii. 



C. MORGANIAE, Rchb.f. — Without doubt this is the finest hybrid Gypripede 

 yet raised ; it is a cross between G. superbiens and G. Stonei, and at first sight 

 much resembles the rare G. Stonei platytcoenium- The ligulate obscurely tessel- 

 lated leaves are in the way of those of C. Stonei. The scapes are generally 

 three-flowered. The dorsal sepal is elliptic apiculate, whitish tinged with red, 

 and having dark red veins ; the petals broad, ligulate, whitish sulphur-colour 

 with numerous dark brownish-purple spots and blotches inside, while the lip is 

 similar to that of G. superbiens, but longer, brownish-mauve above and yellowish- 



