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C. ROEZLII, Bclib. f. — This species resembles C. longifoUum in habit. 

 The scape or flower-stem grows 3 feet high, and bears many flowers ; the 

 leaves are 2 feet long, 2 inches broad, ligulate keeled, and of a bright green ; 

 the flowers are very large, the dorsal sepal yellowish-green, with a sufiused> 

 rosy-purple border, the lateral sepals flesh-coloured, the linear lanceolate 

 petals spreading, green, with a bright red-purple border and tip, and the lip 

 3 inches long, with the saccate portion greenish-yellow. It blooms during 

 March, April, and May ; indeed it may be called a perpetual bloomer. — New 

 Orenada. 



Fig.— Z'lU. Sort., 'Bid scr., 1. 138 ; Floral Mag., 2a.A ser., t. 119 ; Sot, Mag.jt. 6217 ; 

 Gartenflora, t. 754. 



Syn. — Solcnipedium JRoedii. 



C. ROTHSCHILDIANUM, Bdib. /.—This is a most hahdsome and distinct 

 Cyprijpedium, and appears to be another one of the forms of the O.praeatans section, 

 which was introduced by Messrs. F. Sander & Co. The late Prof. Eeichenbach 

 describedit in the Gardeners' Clironiclea.s follows: — "Its leaves are unusually long, 

 more than 2 feet in length, 2| to 3 inches in width, green, glossy, very strong ; 

 the peduncle is said to be three-flowered, but may become more florid later ; it 

 is reddish with few very short hairs ; the green bract is spathaceous, not equal 

 to half the stalked glabrous ovary, and has a few dark longitudinal stripes at 

 the base ; the fresh flower at hand is much smaller than my wild ones, which 

 are quite equal to those of the best of its Papuan consort, C. praestans ; 

 odd sepal cuneate oblong acute, yellowish with numerous longitudinal dark, 

 almost blackish, stripes, also white at the borders ; lateral sepals united into 

 one nearly equal smaller shorter body; petals undulate at the base, linear, 

 narrow at the top, yellowish green with dark longitudinal lines, and dark 

 blotches at the base; lip like that of C. Stonei and C. praestans, very strong, 

 almost leathery, cinnamon-coloured, with ochre border to the mouth, and with 

 an ochre-coloured mid-line underneath. The most peculiar point is the 

 staminode ; it is quite novel ; it has a stout base, and rises erect, bending down 

 into a beak-like, narrow process, covered partly with hairs, the hairs consist of 

 rows of cells, and the cells have several girdles of numerous tubercles in their 

 circumference; the numerous hairs are thicker, and white at the top; this 

 staminode looks much like the throat and head of some bird, such as a 

 cra,ne."-^Neio Ouinaa. 



Fig. — HeicJieniachia, ii. t; 61 ; Jown. of Hort., 1889, xviii. p. 239, f. 36 ; JBot. Man., 

 t. 7102 ; Gard. C/trom., Srd ser., 18W, x. p. 15, f. 3. 



Stn. — C. neo-guinccnse. 



C. RUBRUM — A pretty hybrid between C. renp,stum and C.Ifookerae, raised 

 by F. M. Burton, Esq., Gainsborough. Dorsal sepal ovate, acuminate, pale green 

 at the base, passing into white, with numerous narrow green veins; petals 

 deflexed, green at the base, passing into pale purplish-brown about the middle, 

 the upper half covered with many dark purplish-brown spots and dots, the. lower 

 half having only a few similar spots about the middle ; the extremities of. a 

 uniform rich rosy-purple ; the edges ciliate. Lip purplish-bronze, passing into 

 greenish-bronze at the base ; staminode large, lunate, purplishibronze. — Garden 

 hybrid. 



