January, 1911.| THHK ORCHID REVIEW. 
PAPHIOPEDILUM INSIGNE GIGANTEUM. 
On December 15th, 1896, a remarkable Cypripedium was exhibited at a 
meeting of the R.H.S. by E. Ashworth, Esq., Harefield Hali, Wilmslow 
and by the late Major Mason, The Firs, Warwick, under the name of 
Cypripedium insigne giganteum (Gard. Chron., 1896, ii. p. 766; O.R., v. 
pp. 30, 31). A flower was sent to us by the former gentleman, at 
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Fig. 1. PAPHIOPEDILUM INSIGNE GIGANTEUM. 
described as follows:—‘‘ An enormous form of this useful old species, 
presumably out of recent importations. The dorsal sepal is over 2¢ inches 
in diameter, and the petals measure 5} inches from tip to tip, all the other 
parts being of corresponding development. In general character it some- 
what resembles C. i. Chantini” (O.R., v. p. 2). In the following autumn it 
