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CYPRIPEDIUM Irapeanun. 
Lrapean Lady's Slipper ; or Pelican flower. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORcHIDACE=É. $ Cypripepex,  (Oncurps, Vegetable 
Kingdom, p. 181.) 
* CFPRIPEDIUM.— Supra, vol. 10. fol. 788. 
C. Irapeanum ; caule folioso piloso multifloro, foliis ovatis acuminatis am- 
plexicaulibus, stamine sterili ovato acuminato subtrilobo, sepalis peta- 
lisque oblongis ‘sequalibus basi barbatis antico apice bipartito labello 
obovato ore constricto brevioribus. 
C. Irapeanum, Llave $ Lexarza Orch. Mexican. 2. 10. Lindl. gen. $ sp. 
orch. p. 528. . 
The annexed figure, taken from a plant belonging to 
Mr. Hugo Finck, in the temporary possession of the Horti- 
cultural Society, does scanty justice to this noble species. 
It is indeed a faithful representation of what appeared in the 
Societys garden; but we have now before us a specimen 
collected in Mexico near the town of Irapeo, which has two 
flowers more than twice the size open at the same time, and 
two more ready to expand. 
It looks like a gigantic form of the downy yellow Lady’s 
Slipper (C. pubescens) of the United States. Lexarza says 
that the Mechoacanians call it Flor del Pelicano, but why he 
does not state. 
Fig. 1. represents the column seen in front. 
This plant is, however, as nothing compared with a curious 
thing found in Caraccas by Mr. Linden, and of which a dried 
specimen is before us. That extraordinary species, the 
Uropedium Lindenii of the Orchidaceæ Lindeniaceæ,* has 
flowers from fifteen to twenty inches long ; that is to say, the 
petals and lip are drawn out into narrow straps or tails of such 
. * Now in the press. 
