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leaves are said to be about intermediate between those of the two parents, 
favouring C. Charlesworthii slightly. We now repeat the illustration of C. 
Fred. Hardy, comparing with it the new seedling. The two agree fairly 
well in the shape of the dorsal sepal, particularly in the way it is folded near 
the apex, a character markedly different from the flat or slightly concave shape 
of C. Charlesworthii. The colour is white, with, in the new seedling, a little 
light yellow at the extreme base, and on it a trace of purple staining on 
either side. The petals spread almost horizontally, as in C. Charlesworthii, 
and are light yellow in colour, but with the darker marbling of the latter 
almost or quite obliterated. The pouch is light greenish yellow, rather 
shorter than in the above figure, and the staminode is broadly obovate, and 
porcelain white, with a yellow horn. These are almost the characters 
recorded of the earlier form, and the resemblance can scarcely be without 
significance. Without the definite record given above one would not have 
taken the present seedling as descended from C. Spicerianum. The absence 
of the purple band of the dorsal sepal, of the undulations of the upper 
margin of the petals, and of the colour and shape of the staminode— 
characters which are rarely quite absent from any Spicerianum hybrid— 
would be held as sufficient evidence for scouting the idea, and if this be so 
in the case of an artificial hybrid, it applies with additional force to the idea 
of C. Fred. Hardy being a natural hybrid between the same two species, for 
we have no evidence that the two grow intermixed. Whatever may be the 
real significance of the facts now pointed out, we have herea very interest- 
ing problem, and we hope that anyone who can throw further light on the 
matter will not hesitate to do so. 
There is another closely allied plant about which very little seems to be 
known, namely, C. Crawshawe, which was described as a new species by 
Mr. J. O’Brien in 1898 (Gard. Chron., 18098, xxiii., p. 18), as follows :— 
“Some time ago, Messrs. J. Charlesworth & Co., of Heaton, Bradford, 
received from the Shan States a few plants of a quite new Cypripedium, 
which, after the manner peculiar to many good things, did not readily bear 
travel. The plant which I have seen somewhat resembles C. Parishii in 
growth, but the leaf and size of the plant are more those of C. Charles- 
worthii. The leaves are, however, much more fleshy than those of that ~ 
species, and bright green above, and entirely grayish-green beneath, the 
plant in no part exhibiting the purple markings usually seen on C. Charles- 
worthii. The collector’s letter and a fine, dried flower have now been for- 
warded. The collector says :—‘It is an entirely new Cypripedium. The 
flower stalk is green and hairy ; the flower is shaped like C. Charlesworthii, 
but it is larger, and the purple markings are entirely absent. In this the 
upper sepal is pure white, with a pale greenish blotch at the base and a 
very slight tinge of the same colour at the lip. The petals, lip, and lower 
