THE ORCHID REVIEW. 145 
CYPRIPEDIUM GODEFROYA LEUCOCHILUM. 
THE beautiful plant which we have now the pleasure of figuring flowered in 
the collection of O. O. Wrigley, Esq., Bridge Hall, Bury, Lancashire, in 
January last, when the photograph here reproduced was taken, which 
represents the plant slightly under two-thirds natural size. The following 
interesting note was also communicated by Mr. Wrigley :— 
‘I have now in flower a very fine bloom of the above-named Cypripedium, 
of which a description may interest your readers. The bloom measures 
three inches from tip to tip of the petals, and two and a quarter inches from 
the apex of the dorsal sepal to the lowest part of the pouch. The greatest 
width of the petals is one and three-eighth inches, and the dorsal sepal 
measures one and a half inches across its widest part. All these measure- 
Fig. 16. CYPRIPEDIUM GODEFROY LEUCOCHILUM. 
ments have been carefully taken with a compass, and were verified by my 
gardener. The colouring of the flower is beautiful, and its markings dis- 
tinct, the dorsal sepal being white, heavily blotched with dark purple, the 
petals similar, with smaller purple spots, while the lip bears out its name by 
being pure white, without a single spot. The petals are somewhat reflexed, 
_ but the dorsal sepal is incurved at the apex. 
‘* This plant was purchased, as an imported piece, at one of ll 
Protheroe and Morris’s Auction Sales, in August, 1892, so that it has been 
established, and bloomed in seventeen months from the date of importation. 
Considering that this is the first bloom on an imported piece, it is possible 
that, when the plant grows strong, the flower may be still larger. 
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