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a distinguished Cypripedium collector. Leaves bright green, tessellated with 

 dark green and suffused with red at the base ; peduncle short, hairy, rose- 

 coloured ; the flower is very beautiful and quite distinct from anything else ; 

 the dorsal sepal is broad, white suffused with vinous purple, violet in the 

 centre, and veined with greenish-yellow; petals short, broad, spathulate, 

 ground colour white, shaded with a beautiful rosy-purple ; lip rosy-purple, 

 greenish at the base and at the back; staminode white suffused with rose, 

 green in the centre. — Garden hybrid. 

 Fig. — Lindenia, iii. t. 130. 



C. VARIOPICTUM, BcM. /.—This hybrid was raised by R. H. Measures, 

 Esq., Streatham, between G. Latvrenceanum and G. Spicerianuni, and is a 

 very effective plant. "The leaves are shaped like those of G. venustum, 

 in colour green with darker, often flexuose margin ; peduncle thin, very long, 

 dark purplish-brown; bracts ancipitous, ligulate acute, green with blackish- 

 purple lines and spots ; it is altogether much shorter than the reddish- 

 brown ovary ; dorsal sepal elliptic acute, whitish-green at the base, with 

 radiating veins ; lateral sepals shorter than the lip, whitish-ochre, very pale, 

 with brown veins; petals deflexed, ligulate acute, with dark purple midline, 

 superior half yellowish, partly covered with dark spots ; anterior part brownish- 

 purple, superior margin very hairy ; lip light ochre, purple outside ; staminode 

 transverse elliptical, the front having large lateral teeth, with minute central 

 iipioulus ; the centre is white, with green dendritic marks ; sides purple." 

 (Reichenbach, in Gardeners' Glironide, 3rd ser., 1888, iv. p. 407). — Garden hybrid. 



C. VEITCHIANUM See C. supemiens. 



C. VENUSTO-SPICERIANUNI, O'Brien.— This hybrid was raised by D. 0. 

 Drewitt, Esq., between C. venustum and G. Spicerianum, the latter being the 

 pollen plant. " The general appearance and habit is that of G. Spicerianum, ; 

 leaf greyish-green on the upper side, mottled with purple on the under ; 

 flower nearly 4 inches across the petals, which latter are yellowish- 

 green, with lines of chocolate dots, the most prominent being the middle 

 line ; petals tinged with red on the outer half ; upper sepal formed much 

 as in C. venustum, green at the lower half, white on the upper half, a 

 purple band running up the middle nearly to the apex, and purple dots 

 on the green at the base ; pouch larger than in C Spicerianum, dull creamy- 

 yellow, veined with green and tinged with purple, the inside beautifully 

 and densely spotted with purple ; staminode white, tinged with purple, and 

 veined in the centre with bright green ; lower sepals pale greenish-yellow, with 

 green lines, unspotted" (O'Brien, in Gardeners' Ghronicle, 3rd ser., 1889, v. 

 p. 394). — Garden hybrid. 



C. VENUSTUM, Wallich.—A handsome species of the acaulescent group. 

 The leaves are light green mottled with deep green, and on the under side green 

 mottled with purple ; the dorsal sepal is greenish- white with purple stripes ; 

 the petals ligulate, ciliate, warted with purple, greenish with purple tips ; and 

 the lip yellowish veined with green and flushed with purple. It is a pretty cool 

 house species, and is very useful for cutting. — Sylhet. 



Fia.— Sot. Mag., t. 2129 ; Sot. Ser/., t. 788 ; ffooJi. &(if. FL, t. 35 ; Loddiges,Sot. 

 Cub., t. 585 ; Warner, SjL Orch. PL, ii. t. 2i ; JIart. Farad., i. t. 4 ; Schh. Fl. Fxot., 1. 100. 



