170 CXLVIII. OROHIDEX. (J. D. Hooker) [Cypripedium. 
* Leaves several, alternate, plaited. 
OF 
2. C. cordigerum, Don Prodr. 37; sepals and narrower petals 
spreading ovate-lanceolate acuminate green or white, lip oblong white, 
staminode ovate- or oblong-cordate. Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 527; 
Dene in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 165, t. 166. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Kashmir, alt. 9-11,000 ft., Clarke, to Kumaon, 
alt. 7-9000 ft., Royle. . 
Stem 10-24 in., robust or slender, and ovary puberulous. Leaves 3-6 by 2-4in., 
approximate or scattered, from nearly orbicular to lanceolate, acute or acuminate. 
Flower solitary ; bract 1-4 in., leafy ; sepals 13-2 in., longer than the lip, the con- 
nate lateral entire or split at the apex ; column yellow. Capsule 13 in., erect, clavate. 
—As Lindley observes, this is not distinguishable except by colour from the European 
C. calceolus, which extends from Britain to Dahuria. It would be well to compare 
living specimens before uniting them. 
3. C. macranthon, Swartz in Act. Holm. 1800, 251; dorsal sepal 
from linear- to ovate-oblong acute, connate lateral narrower, lip subglobose 
much inflated purple, staminode ovate-oblong. Lindl. Gen. A Sp. Orchid. 
528; in Bot. Reg. t. 1534; Bot. Mag. t. 2938; Reichb. Fl. Exot, ii. t. 16, 
No. 99; Ic. Fl. Germ. xii. t. 498; Fl. des Serres, t. 1118; Il. Horti. 
1857, t. 147; Belg. Hortic. vii. 353, t. 61; Gartenfl. 1863, t. 409; Trans. 
Russ. Hort. Soc. 1863, t. 135 ; Orchidoph. 1887, t. 75, £. 1; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. 
iv. 87. 
ALPINE HIMALAYA ; from Garwhal to Sikkim, alt. 11,500-14,000 ft.— DISTRIB. 
Northern and Subarctic Europe and Asia to Japan. 
Stem 1-1} ft., usually very stout, pubescent. Leaves 3-6 by 2-4 in., ovate or 
oblong, acute, puberulous. Flowers 1-2, 14-2 in. diam.; sepals and petals very 
variable in length and breadth, longer or shorter than the lip, yellowish or greenish 
with dark purple stains, or all purple; combined lateral acute or bidentate; lip 
inflated, light or dark purple, mouth small crenate, sides often grooved concentrically. 
—In Sikkim specimens gathered by myself, the dorsal sepal is broadly oblong 1 1- 
long, and the petals as long but narrower and lanceolate, both yellow-green and 
striped with dark red. 
Var. ventricosa; Carriere in Rev. Hortic. 1877, 310; dorsal sepal broader; 
and petals usually much longer, often 2 in. long, lip very large 1-15 in. diam. 
ventricosum, Swartz in Act. Holm. 1800, 251; Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 529 ; Sweet 
Fl. Gard. iv. t. 1; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. xiii. t. 497. —Chumbi, in Tibet, N.E. of 
Sikkim, King's Collector.—Distrib. Siberia.—In King's Tibetan specimen, of which 
he has lent me a drawing, the dorsal sepal is broadly ovate, 1} by $ in., the petals = 
by $ in., oblong-lanceolate, both white striped with red. 
** Leaves radical, distichous, oblong or lorate, coriaceous, not plaited. 
Scape 1-3-fld., pubescent or villous. 
a. Petals as broad as the dorsal sepal, short, sessile, broadly oblong, 
margins not undulate nor warted. 
4. C. concolor, Butem. in Bot. Mag. t. 5513; leaves oblong or linear. 
oblong tessellated, scape short 1-2-fld., sepals suborbicular and elliptic 
oblong petals yellow ciliate, sac of lip subcylindric, staminode subrhow- 
boidly ovate apiculate. IUl. Hort. 1865, t. 444; Gartenfl. 1874, t. 803; FI. 
des Serres, t. 2321; Williams Orchid. Alb. t. 302; Beicht, f. in Gard. 
Chron. 1865, 626 ; 1883, i. 19, fig. 3; Veitch Man. 17, with fij. 
TENASSERIM; near Moulmein, Parish, UrPrR BURMA; in the Shan bills 
Prayer.—DisTRIB. Cambodia, 
