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THE ORCHID WORLD. 
CYPRIPEDIUM 
This is decidedly one of the most beautiful 
of all Cypripedes ; a truly maj^-nificent variety 
for beauty of form and colouring. The huge 
upper dorsal is two-thirds white, with a 
central hard of crimson, from each side of 
which there is a charming' venation of 
feathered rosy crimson lines springing from 
an emerald-green base. The petals are 
yellow, with bronz\--crimson lines, which latter 
BRUGGENSE. 
are copiously dotted with the same colour; 
pouch \'ellow with green veinings ; staminode 
large, almost rhomboid in shajie, pure white, 
with a green spot in the centre. 
It was raised by Messrs. Sander and 
Sons, St. Albans, and most of the stock 
is in the well-known collection of Samuel 
Gratrix, Esq., West Point, Whalley Range, 
Manchester. 
