ccxiv proceedings of the royal horticultural society. 



Orchid Committee, September 26, 1893. 



Harry J. Veitch, Esq., F.L.S., in the Chair, and nine 

 members present. 



Awards Recommended :— 



First Class Certificate. 

 To Cypripedium Charlesworthii, Rolfe, n. sp. (votes, unani- 

 mous), from Messrs. Charlesworth, Shuttleworth & Co., Heaton, 



Fig. 42.— Cypripedium Charleswortiiii. (Journal of Horticulture.) 



Bradford. A very fine and distinct species imported from the 

 East Indies. The plant somewhat resembles C. Spicerianum in 

 habit. The flowers, which are borne singly on purplish scapes 

 3 inches high, have the upper sepal 2^ inches wide, broadly 

 orbicular, flat, tinged and veined with light rosy-purple over the 

 greater part of its surface. The lower sepals, which are greenish 



