40 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [FEBRUARY, 1909. 
PAPHIOPEDILUM INSIGNE VAR. LAGER. 
A FLOWER and photograph of a very distinct and striking variety of Paphio- 
pedilum insigne have been sent by Messrs. Lager & Hurrell, Summit, New 
Jersey, U.S.A., and the photograph is here reproduced. Messrs. Lager & 
Hurrell write: ‘‘ The variety is, as far as we know, unique, an entirely new 
departure in colour from anything hitherto seen in C. insigne. If the 
flower arrives in good condition it will speak for itself, but in case it is 
damaged we append a description and also enclose a photograph. The 
entire centre of the dorsal sepal is of a reddish dark brown chocolate colour, 
Fig. 3. PAPHIOPEDILUM INSIGNE LAGERA. 
slightly suffused towards the edges with greenish yellow, and with four ot 
five rose-purple marks at the extreme upper part of the blotch, the whole 
being encircled with a pure white band. The petals are yellowish green, 
heavily barred and veined with reddish brown, and the tips yellowish green. 
The plant has flowered with us for the first time this year, out of a lot of 
plants we imported from Burma four years ago.”” It seems most allied to 
the variety Bohnhofianum (Gard. Chron., 1890, ii. p. 655), whose history has 
already been given in our pages (ii. pp. 40, 98). In that the base of the 
dorsal sepal is uniformly suffused with brown. 
