106 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
preponderates. The prevailing colour is deep crimson-purple, which is 
suffused through a considerable part of the flower. The upper sepal has 
a white margin and some dark veins on the disc. The petals ate light 
yellowish-green at the base, dotted with minute blackish warts, th 
remainder being glossy crimson-purple. The lip is brownish-purple 
front, ‘inclining to greenish behind, and the staminode brownish-purple 
We believe it is also very rare. 
C. x Fraseri is a very similar form, and was probably derived from the 
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same two species, though, according to existing records, from the reverse 
parentage. 
The colouration of this hybrid is somewhat peculiar, and very attract 
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It evidently arises from the union of the. diverse colour-pigments of 
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two species. That it is of no mere accidental character 1S evident, ) 
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same peculiarity is seen in C. x Castleanum, derived from C. hirsu 
and C. superbiens. It would therefore be a very promising experiment 
cross C. hirsutissimum with C. Lawrenceanum, C. Curtisii, and some . 
species of the tessellated-leaved group. We commend the expel 
to our readers. Re 
The photograph here reproduced was taken from a flower kin y 
by Baron Sir Henry Schréder, of The Dell, Egham. 
A A 6: Vaile 
Cypripedium x porphyrochlamys, Rchb, f. in Gard. Chron. 1884, i. P. 479) 
Man. Orch., iv. p. 96 ; Orchid Album, ix., t. 426. 
A CURIOUS CYPRIPEDIUM BOXALLI. 
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A very curious specimen of Cypripedium Boxallii has been sent 
nd the 
H. J. Ross, Esq., of Florence, in which the scape is two-flowered 3 
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lowermost bract developed into a normal leaf over eight and a halt 
hat 
long. It affords a capital illustration of the well-known fact t | 
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peduncle is only an elongated portion of the axis, and the feic 
modified leaf. Were it not for the elongated scape below the 2 axil 
might consider it an example of an additional sessile flower “2 a ong 
the leaf, as the stalk of the uppermost flower is three and a halt? g sett 
‘ The flowers are quite normal in character. When the specimen a ip 
the uppermost flower was only a bud, but the scape being placed ye hav? 
an ordinary room, this bud ultimately expanded precisely S pees a fool” 
done if left on the plant, which fact shows the value of the leaf oe 
orm These abnormal developments are apt to be very instructive 
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