Phragmipedium Sedenii: Phragmipedium Schroederafc and Phragmipedium Calurum

摘要

PHRAGMIPEDIUM SCHROE-DERAE In 1882, Phragmipedium Schroe-derae (caudatum x Sedenii) was flowered by John Seden. (The grex name is also spelled in the literature as Schroderae.) It looks much like Phrag. Albopurpureum (Dominianum x schlimii), but it has bigger flowers. The new cross was described in The Gardeners' Chronicle, I, p. 432 in 1883: "Cypripedium Schroederae Hort. Veitch. This is a Sedenian cross, raised at the Royal Exotic Nursery of Messrs. James Veitch & Sons from Cypripedium caudatum andC. Sedeni. Mr. Harry Veitch has dedicated it to the Baroness Schroeder, an especial lover of orchids. It is a fine plant, the flower of which may well be compared with that of Cypripedium albo-purpureum. yet it is far larger. The odd sepal is narrower,nearly to ochre-coloured, with purple veins. The lateral sepals form a very broad, transverse mass, ochre-coloured, with purple-brown and purple veins, the two purple midribs being very conspicuous. Petals dependent, very broad, acute, undulate, having some purple, and a whitish middle area. Lip broad, blunt, purple outside. Inflexed lobes sulphur-yellowish with brown blotches. Anterior limb of sac crenulate. Side horn-like processes very obscure. Bracts far more developed than in my specimens of Cypripedium albopurpureum. Leaves as in Cypripedium Sedeni. H.G. Rchb.f."