May 8, 1884. ] 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
most recent, is C. Leeanum, for which a certificate was awarded to 
Messrs. Veitch at the Royal Horticultural Society’s meeting, Jan. 8th 
of the present year. In the production of this, the comparatively 
new C. Spicerianum has been employed with C. insigne Maulei, and it 
was a subject of common remark at the meeting in question that the 
hybrid was exactly intermediate in its characters. The dorsal sepal 
is much like C. Spicerianum, but with the purple spots of the other 
at least 100 guineas, and it has been stated that the original purchasing 
puce was 80 guineas. C. albo-purpureum is also very valuable ; a 
good plant has realised 50 guineas, but a much larger and wonderfully 
handsome specimen has been priced at 150 guineas. 
, w 9j^h. no ^ ce that the species most largely employed in raising 
these hybrids has been C. barbatum and its varieties, which have been 
concerned in the production of about a dozen or more, as several of 
Fra. 86. —Cypripedidm grande. 
parent; the petals and staminode resemble C. insigne Maulei, while 
the lip is suggestive of the first-named species. But for the striking 
evidence afforded by this combination of characters some would have 
been inclined to doubt that C. Spicerianum was one of the parents, as 
it -was thought it had not been in cultivation sufficiently long to obtain 
such strong plants from it. 
Perhaps the most valuable of all the hybrids is C. Schroederae, 
which is, I believe, represented by a unique specimen in the collection 
ef Baron Schroder at Egham. This has been estimated to be worth 
the Warnerian hybrids have probably been derived from that species 
with others. In nearly every case distinct species have formed the 
seed or pollen-bearing parents, but C. marmorophyllum and C. patens 
are both from C. barbatum with C. Hookerm, the crossing being 
reversed. In the majority of these the C. barbatum influence can be 
clearly traced, and it is probably due to this that some have denounced 
hybrid Cypripediums as too much alike. 
In the list given below all the hybrids are included respecting 
which any information could be gained, and it may be mentioned that 
