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greenish-white, with bands of clear green, dotted with sepia ; petals horizontal 

 gracefully curved, brownish-claret coloured above, much dotted with dark 

 chestnut, with jet black hairs, the lower part has a ground colour of greenish- 

 white, streaked with a dark green, and spotted with reddish-chestnut • the lip 

 is long, blood-red on the upper surface, olive-green with a rosy flush below ; 

 staminode flesh-coloured, under surface of the lobes olive, in the centre an 

 excrescence of brilliant green ; floral scape about 15 inches high, dark brown ; 

 bract green, dotted with black at the base ; the foliage is fine, nearly 2 inches 

 wide by 9^ inches long, with very serried hieroglyphic markings ; it flowered 

 first in December, 1892, is a sturdy hybrid and of good habit" (F. Desbois, 

 in Gardeners' Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1893, xiv. p. 162). — Garden hybrid. 



C. NEOGUINIENSE.— See C. Eoihsciuldianum. 



C. NIOBE, Rolfe. — A dwarf hybrid plant obtained between C. Sjpicerianum 

 and C. Fairrieanum. The leaves are oblong, acute, some 6 or 6 inches in length, 

 and a little more than an inch in breadth, dark green above, paler beneath ; 

 peduncle one-flowered; flowers 3 inches across; dorsal sepal broadly ovate, 

 white flushed with flesh colour, having a broad central streak of rich bright 

 brown, with a small patch of apple-green at the base, features that stamp it with 

 the undoubted parentage of C. Spicerianum, and having on either side some 

 thinner streaks of light magenta running up through it, but all ending below 

 the margin, thus leaving a border of pure white, on the reverse side the streaks 

 are of a deep magenta-purple ; lower sepal smaller, creamy -white, faintly 

 streaked with pale green ; petals linear oblong, of a uniform width throughout, 

 deflexed, the points recurved like 0. Fairrieanum, ground colour soft apple-green, 

 having a broad central stripe of chocolate and a few dotted lines of dark brown, 

 margins beautifully undulated, broadly bordered with dark brown, and fringed 

 with black hairs; the pouch-like lip medium size, pale green, flushed with 

 bright brown in front, the veins green, passing into pale green beneath ; 

 staminode sub-orbicular, deeply indented, streaked with green in the centre, 

 having a lunate rosy border in front with white margin. — Garden hybrid. 



YlG.—Jimrn. of Hort., 1889, xix. p. 527, f. 67 ; Tlw Garden, 1891, xxxix. p. 482 

 (plate) ; L' rchidop\ilif, 1892, p. 81 (plate) ; OrcMd Album, x. t. 438 ; Orchid Review, i. 

 p. 7, f. 1. 



Syn. — C. Gasltellianum , Gowcr. 



C. NITENS, Rchb. f. — A hybrid raised between C. villosum and O. insigne 

 Maulei. According to Professor Reichenbach, it is theoretically a very 

 valuable addition to the rich series of Gypripediums, and practically it naay be 

 regarded as an improved edition of 0. insigne Maulei. It has the leaves of 

 C villosum, dark green ; the dorsal sepal is quite as in Maulei, but far larger ; 

 the petals are ligulate, wavy, light brown, and ochre colour, reticulate, and 

 very glossy, and the lip has a narrow sub-conical sac, with long lateral horns 

 as in C. villosum. — Garden hybrid. 



Fig. — Lindeiiia, v. t. 223. 



C. NITENS SUPERBUM, Hort. — A superior variety in colour and size to 

 the type. 



