THE ORCHID REVIEW. 41 
CYPRIPEDIUM INSIGNE SANDER. 
Tue history of this beautiful variety—probably the most valuable Cypri- 
pedium known—was briefly given at p. 363 of our last volume, and 
have much pleasure in presenting our readers with a portrait of it, which has 
been reproduced from a photograph kindly sent by R. I. Naasianes Esgq., of 
Cambridge Lodge, Flodden Road, Camberwell (gr. Mr. H. Chapman). It was 
described by Reichenbach in the autumn of 1888, when it flowered with Messrs. 
Sander and Co., of St. Albans, out of an importation of the so-called 
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. insigne montanum, which has proved unusually variable. It 1 
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Fig. 5. CYPRIPEDIUM INSIGNE SANDER&. 
light yellow variety in which only the very faintest trace of spotting remains 
on the dorsal sepal. On November 14th of that year a small — with 
a single growth and one flower was sold by auction at Messrs. Pro 
and Morris’ Rooms for seventy guineas, Baron Schréder being the pr 
The other half of the plant passed into the collection of R. H. << 
Esq., The Woodlands, Streatham, is 
following year the latter plant was divided into two, one half being sold 
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