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CYPRIPEDIUM venustum. 
Spotted-leaved Ladies” Slipper. 
mer 
GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDEZ. Jussieu gen. 64. Brown prod. 1. 300. Div. 
Diandria. 
CYPRIPEDIUM. Labellum ventricosum, inflatum (nune saccatum). 
Columna posticè terminata lobo petaloideo (stamine sterili), antheras dis- 
tinguente. Petala dua antica sepiüs connata. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 
5. 220. 
C. venustum, foliis distachyo-patentibus, equitantibus, lanceolato-oblongis, 
acute canaliculatis enerviis, supra triste glaucescentibus, maculis obscu- 
ris informibus lax? notatis, subtus purpureo-punctatis, scapo villoso. 
Cypripedium venustum. Wallich MSS. Curtiss magaz. 2129. 
Acaulis. Folia firmiuscula, radicalia, plura ad plurima, alternè et 
imbricatè bifaria, basi equitantia supernè recurvo-patentia, oblonga, acutata, 
altè et acutissimè carinata, 4-5-uncialia latitudine subunciali, ex glauco 
tristè virentia, opaca, papillulis atomoideis veluti in Aranee epidermidi 
densè pruinata, cartilagine subtili marginata, supra maculis saturatioribus 
subliteratis laxé sparsa, avenia, enervia, subtüs glabriora pallidiora et punc- 
tis purpureis rotundis varie approximatis vel passim confluentibus et modo in 
lineas catenatis sparsa. Scapus rigidus foliis parum altior, erectus, teres, 
marmorato-maculosus, villosus, penná corviná crassior. Germen sessile ob- 
longum villosum spatha brevius, costis rotundatis, 3 alternis minoribus. Co- 
rollam recentem completam nequimus habere; sed ex tabula CYPRIPEDII 
insignis pluribus videtur diversam. 
Our plant is a recent acquisition from the East Indies, 
and the first that has accrued to the genus from that coun- 
try. Independent of novelty and beauty, the paramount 
importance of conformity in the structure of those organs 
which have been adopted for generic standard, receives 
from this species an unprecedented illustration, even when 
contending with extreme anomaly of habit. Who of us, 
if he could have been apprized of this difference alone, that 
would not have prognosticated such consequent distinction 
in those parts, termed from their influence essential, that 
would at least have justified the removal of plants of 
so heterogeneous an appearance into separate groups? But 
he will find, upon inspection, that the present species can, 
with no more propriety, be kept from a place in Cyprı- 
PEDIUM than those which rank in that genus by almost 
indefinable gradation. 
