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the treatment it requires, as indicated by the strong growth and 
foliage with the well developed flowers. It is unquestionably one 
of the most handsome of the recently introduced Cypripediums, 
and it will rank amongst the best forms of the genus that are 
because it approaches so near in structural characters to the 
Selenipedia of South America. Another of the same type, which 
has been named C. Elliottianurrq exhibited by the Duke of Marl¬ 
borough at the same meeting, seems too much like a smaller form 
known, not even excepting the celebrated C. Stonei platytsenium. C. 
Rothschildianum is one of a group of species found in the Eastern 
Archipelago, of which C. Stonei, C. philippinense, and C. Sanderi- 
anum may be mentioned, the last named especially interesting, 
of C. Rothschildianum, but as the plant was a small one it is 
probable that it may improve. 
In C. Rothschildianum the leaves are 18 to 24 inches long, 
2 to 3 broad, bright green, and strong. The flowers are bold and 
