THE ORCHID REVIEW. 361 
A CURIOUS CYPRIPEDIUM INSIGNE. 
THE annexed illustration shows the remarkable plant of Cypripedium 
insigne which flowered a year ago in the collection of W. M. Appleton, 
Esq., of Weston-super-Mare, as recorded at page 11. It is hardly 
necessary to add that the figure is exact in every particular, having been 
reproduced by the well-known process from a photograph sent by Mr. 
Appleton. It is one of the so-called ‘‘montanum,” forms, but one flower 
Fig. 15—-CYPRIPEDIUM INSIGNE ABNORMAL. 
alone is normal, the petals of all the others being transformed into lips, 
which clasp the normal lip as here shown. The anthers of these five 
flowers are completely wanting, or to speak more correctly, they have 
wandered from their proper course and coalesced with the petals to form 
two additional lips. The column and staminode are both smaller than 
usual. The cause of the malformation is at present uncertain, though 
Mr. Appleton is inclined to attribute it to the plant being rather pot-bound. 
It remains to be seen if the peculiarity is permanent. In any case it is 
