. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 647. Cypripedium Rothschildianum!(X M)* spots Nilssoni.— iVltens.—Larger than the type,stronger in growth: fls. very large; upper sepal white- margined; spots in irregular rows. — Pynaerti. — Sckrcederi- anum, Fls. extremely large; upper sepal nearly orbicular, or 648. Cypripedium acaule
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 647. Cypripedium Rothschildianum!(X M)* spots Nilssoni.— iVltens.—Larger than the type,stronger in growth: fls. very large; upper sepal white- margined; spots in irregular rows. — Pynaerti. — Sckrcederi- anum, Fls. extremely large; upper sepal nearly orbicular, or 648. Cypripedium acaule {X%). 26. Exiil, Rolfe. Lvs. narrower and more rigid than in the preceding species: upper sepal greenish yellow at the base, spotted with brown, upper part white ; petals and labellum'similar to those of Siam. 7510. —Considered by some to be a form of C. insigne. 27. Driiryi, Beddome. Lvs. ligulate, uniform green: scape about 1 ft. high : ovary subtended by a small bract; upper sepal arching at the summit, yellowish with a dark median band; petals ligulate, yellow, with a dark median band ; labellum yellowish. May, June. India. 24:265. 6:555. 28. villdsum, Lindl. Lvs. linear-iigulate, uniform green spotted with brown-purple at the base: scapes co- piously long-hairy : ovary subtended by a bract nearly as long as itself : upper sepal narrow at the base, broader above, brownish at the base, otherwise greenish yellow, finely margined with white ; petals spatulate, broad at apices, wavy-margined, oblique, with a con- spicuous brown midvein, otherwise brownish yellow; labellum brownish yellow; staminode large, oblong, yel- lowish. Jan., Feb. India. LH. 4:126. 6:555. Var. B6xalli. Hort. (C. BdxalU, Reichb. f.). Upper sepal spotted with blackish spots, which are more or less confluent along the median line. Burma. 26:345. 29. SAllieri, Godef. Petals somewhat resembling those of the above; upper sepal large, broad at and to- ward the summit,
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