CONFOEMATIOJT OF THE GENUS CTPBIPEDIUM. 



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there were two lateral sepals turned downwards, an upper median 



Fig. I. 



Fig. 2. 



Fig. 1. Shows flower of C. harhatum described in the text. The column is 



shown as seen from the side. 

 Fig. 2, Diagram showing the arrangement of the parts in fig. 1. 



petal P, aud, opposite to it, a lip L. The column bad one fertile 

 median stamen, Ai, and in front of it one stigma, S^^, the other 



P 



Ai 







L 



S 



s 



parts being absent. In Mr. Hansen's series of 

 drawinfi^s I have seen illustrations of a similar 

 malformation and dislocation in G. Sedenix^ 

 C. harhatum^ C. venustum^ and C Lawrenceanum, 

 The relative position of the parts in such 

 flowers may be thus expressed : — 



The lateral sepals are usually conjoined and, 

 as it were, dragged out of place and made to 

 assume a median position more or less o})posite 

 the upper median petal ; but Mr. Hansen's drawings show various 



(1878) June 18 and (1885) July 21 ; also Verhandl. d. Bot. Vereins d. Prov. 

 Brandenburg (1882), xiiv. p. Ill, and ixr. p. x, where other references to the 

 literature of the subject are giyen. Pimerous flowers associated with the pre- 

 sence of one median fertile stamen, Ai, are frequently met with in this hybrid 

 Cypripedium. 



Diagrammatic 

 illustration of figs. 



1 &2. 



