Fesrvary, 1916] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 41 
watey Rts 
tae CYPRIPEDIUM SCHLIMII. ret 
zim RON) 
HE annexed figure. represents a group of finely-grown plants of 
Cypripedium Schlimii, from the collection of Mrs. R. N. Hooper, 
Stanshawes Court, Chipping Sodbury, Glos. (gr. Mr. J. F. Coles), which is 
now being disposed of for the benefit of the Red Cross Fund and another 
war charity (see p. 28). The species was originally discovered by Schlim 
in 1852, on the eastern Cordillera of New Grenada, at abcut 4000 feet 
elevation, and was introduced to cultivation some two years later by 
Wagener, when collecting for M. J. Linden, of Brussels. Its habit and 
Fig. 17. CYPRIPEDIUM SCHLIMII. 
floriferous character are well shown in the illustration. The flowers are 
not unlike those of the North American C. Reginz, and the colour is blush 
white, suffused with pink at the base of the segments and on the front of the 
lip, and streaked with carmine rose round the mouth of the latter. The 
variety albiflorum was ‘ntroduced a little later, and has much less rose in the 
flowers, though it is not quite a true albino. For some years the species 
remained rare in gardens, and it is said that the stock was increased by seed, 
opportunity being taken of its habit of self-fertilisation. It has also been 
taken in hand by the hybridist, and Messrs. Veitch remark that no other 
Orchid yet brought under cultivation has been the means of producing such 
remarkable results through hybridisation. The beautiful C. Sedenii (Schlimii 
