. The orchid-grower's manual : containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants . CYPRIPEDIUM GODEFEOY^. CYPRIPEDIUM. 245 leaves, unequally acute at the apex. The flower scapes are stoutand hairy, bearing from two to three flowers, of which thedorsal sepal is very broad, roundish and convex, whitestained with crimson and striped with deep crimson-purpleand green, and the broadly ligulate ciliate petals are muchlonger than those of C. barbatwn, whitish at the base, withmany laige purplish spots throughout, mostly ranged inlines; the lip is like that of C. barbatu
. The orchid-grower's manual : containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants . CYPRIPEDIUM GODEFEOY^. CYPRIPEDIUM. 245 leaves, unequally acute at the apex. The flower scapes are stoutand hairy, bearing from two to three flowers, of which thedorsal sepal is very broad, roundish and convex, whitestained with crimson and striped with deep crimson-purpleand green, and the broadly ligulate ciliate petals are muchlonger than those of C. barbatwn, whitish at the base, withmany laige purplish spots throughout, mostly ranged inlines; the lip is like that of C. barbatum, but much larger,brownish crimson. This variety was raised by Mr. Seden,in Messrs. Veitchs nursery at Chelsea.—Garden —Veitch, Cat., 1880, 10, with fig.; Garden, xix. 636, with fig. C. FairrieaiLlim, Lindley.—A beautiful rare and distinctspecies of the stemless type. The leaves are distichous, loriformchannelled, of a light green colour, and the scapes green andpilose, the flowers produced very freely during the autumnmonths, and continuing in perfection for six weeks. They arelarge, with
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