I'l.ATK XXX. 



CYPEIPEDIUM VILLOSUM. 



A handsome terrestrial orchid, of tufted habit, stemlcsa, and producing numerous leave*, which are longer than the 

 flower-scapes. liRuUlc, acute, sharply keeled, leathery in lexlnre, and everywhere peon except near the ba*e 

 on the under side, where they are .polled with dull purplish .lols. TIic (lowers, which emerge From cannate 

 tpathcs, are abundant, each home singly on a sca]>e winch is villous with purple hairs. The dorsal sepal « 

 broadly-obonite, incurved, emarginnte, with n blunt, villous keel, green, stained from the base upwards with 

 lines and reticulations of dark brown pnrple ; the antical sepal is smaller, apiculate, <>f n pale watery green. 

 The petal* arc spnthulate, un.lulai.xl. unequal-sided, notched at the points, with a brown-purplc median hne, 

 the lower portion greenish, the upper and larger portion rich warm sienna brown with purple lines, the whole, 

 shining as if varnished. The lip is oblong, with two erect obtuse basal lobes, pale dull yellow suSoscd wilh 

 brownish purple. The sterile stamen is obeordate, mueronnlalo, papillose, and bears near the centre a 

 prominent smooth blunt horn-like tubercle. The column, as well as the petals, is bearded at the. base. I lw 

 ovary i* shaggy with purple hairs. 



Cmnmuw vilmbum, W%, GonhnetJ 6*rw«fr, 18M, 135 : Jfcfetotfad and TAndn, PmafM*, t. -IS ; ZmwiVw, 

 Vm**lratm IlorlicJr. t. 12« j /'«* lIo*lte. Flore fa Serre*. xiv,, t. M75. 



The native country of this fine species of Lady's Slipper is Moulmcin, where it was found by 

 Mr. Thomas Lobb, at an elevation of 5000 feet above the sea, and by him it was sent to the Messrs. 

 Witch, who exhibited it for the first lime at a meeting of the Boyd Horticultural Society in 185*. and 

 obtained for it the award of a Silver Knightian Medal. 



topripedim viUavm is a grand species of a remarkably interesting genus, and is worthy the attention 

 of all lovers of orchidaceous plants, for not only is it extremely handsome and distinct, but it may he 

 .-row., into a good specimen with very little trouble, and its flowers retain their full beauty for eight or (en 

 weeks, hi general appearance this plant most nearly resembles C. intigne, but nevertheless it is thoroughly 

 distinct The leaves are light green, freckled towards the base on the under side with dark spots, and 

 measuring about twelve inches in length. The scapes are .lightly shorter than the leaves and bear each a 

 ringlo flower, which is about five inches in diameter, and has a glossy appearance, as if the surface had 

 been varnished. The sepals and petals are of a rich orange-brown, intermixed with light green and dark 

 pnrple. The lip.purplc-staincl.is of that peculiar saccate, calculate, or shpper-hkc formation wh«h has 

 gTcd for the genus the popular name of Lady's Slipper. The plant from winch our dl,,rat,on was 

 taken, b in our own collection at llroomficld. 



«**-. ^ invaluable a, object, of decoration h the |W *■* « «** I—, an,! „o 

 collection which a, all aims a, completeness should lack »m. few of Ik. spece, m-p»> 

 M the present plant form, a splendid s,*cimcn ft, exhibition purpoe*. H| a, ,. doe. ttrough 



,1,0 month] of April. May 1 Jna, 1, require. •. be p. b 0,0 Kast I,„.,a house, M *, .be 



growth is completed, it may ho removed to a cooler house it required. 



The soil which Iron, ejperta.ee ha, been found best adapted for >t > a nature of rough h rou, 

 peat. .pba,uua, mm. and a li.Uo silver sand. In poUing. it should not be eleva.cl above the run of U,0 



