Cypripedium.] ^ otemt. orcHIDEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 171 
Leaves 3-5 in., crowded, obtuse, pale green above, fascicled with undulate bands 
of dark green, purple or purple spotted beneath. Scapes 1-2 in. and cymbiform 
bract dark purple; flowers 2-3 in. diam., pale yellow, sparsely dotted with purple; 
petals hardly longer than the sepals ; lip small, mouth slightly dilated.—R eichb. f. 
describes (Gard. Chron. 1886, 294) a var. chlorophylla with an interrupted Joe 
of purple spots along the midribs of the sepals and petals, and var. sulphurina (l. c. 
» i, 264) with unspotted sulphur coloured flowers. Other vars. are tonkinensis, 
Lindenia, ii. t. 77, and Regneri, Orchidoph. 1886, 226. —The C. Godefroyi of Siam 
is very closely allied, but has dorsal sepals and petals broader than long, copiously 
spotted, and a 3-toothed staminode. 
, 9. C. niveum, Zeichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1869, 1038; Xen. Orchid. 
i. 195; leaves linear-oblong tessellated, scape elongate 1-2-fd., sepals 
orbicular and broadly oblong petals ciliate, sac of lip ovoid mouth con- 
tracted, staminode large transversely oblong. Bot. Mag. t. 5922; IH. 
Hort, 1871, t. 83 ; Flor. -Mag. 1871, t. 543 ; Jennings Orchid. t. 28 ; Reichen- 
bachia, i, t, 34; Gard. Chron. 1883, ii. ; fig.1. Veitch Man. 39, with fig.; C. 
concolor, var, nivea, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. l. c. 
STRAITS oF Maracca; Langkawi Islands, south of Penang.—DıstRIB. Tambilan 
sland, between Singapore and Borneo, and W. coast of Siam. 8 
eaves 4-6 in., green above with darker blotches, lurid purple beneath. Pe 
l-2-fid. ; bracts very short ; flowers 3 in. diam., pure white more or less dotted wit 
Purple ; dorsal sepal very broad, stained with purple on the back; petals rather 
nger, variable in size and breadth ; staminode closing the mouth of the lip. 
B. Petals as broad as the dorsal sepal or nearly so, spathulate, clawed, 
margins not warted, 
6. C. villosum, Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1854, 125 ; leaves loriform, not 
tessellate, scape elongate, villous bract nearly as long as the ovary, dorsal 
dr suberect obovate-oblong with the lower margins revolute and spathu- 
Top tals ciliate, lip helmet-shaped, staminode obovate base cordate. lil. 
t.139 wt. 126; Pescator. t. 48; Fl. des Serres, t. 1475. Lindenia, ii. 
ei Warner Sel. Orchid, ii. t. 30. Veitch Man. 54, with fig. C. Boxalli, 
Kf in Gard, Chron. 1877, i. 307 ; Ill. Hort. xxvi. 345. 
TENASsERIy 3 Moulmein, alt. 4-5000 ft., Lobb, Parish. 
n., green above, paler beneath. Scape 1-fld. ; bract spathaceous 
; flowers 5-6 in. diam., glossy ; dorsal sepal green with browns 
lip bro ase and white margins, keel hirsute; petals hirsute towards the oe with 
s We Yellow, mouth and staminode tawny yellow.— C. B ozalii is a va (Gard 
Chro Pats on the dorsal sepal and more tessellated petals. Var., aurea white 
and gol 3, i. 374) has a bright yellow-green dorsal sepal margined with 
D den yellow petals and lip. 
wy, o, BirSutissimum, Lindl. in Bot. Mag. t. 4990; leaves lorate 
biet tessellate, bract small and flower hirsute, dorsal 7 SN 
late, li Ar-0vate obtuse, petals horizontal spathulate claw crispe l or Ke 
Orchid Ae met-shaped, staminode quadrate angles rounded. H arner Se 
Orchid. ii id? Belg. Hortic. vii. 353, t. 6L; Ill. Hort. iv. Mise. 67; Xen. 
9€ . nj ` "y, 0: Ve itch 
Man, 29, with fe Rev. Hortic. 1859, 182 ; Fl. des Serres, t. 1430 ; Ve 
‘S$; on the Assam face, Simons. . - 
purple” a 7-12 M., green. Scape 12 in., green, hairs of bracts and flowers dark 
Petals near’ 4 in. diam. ; dorsal sepal green with a dull purplish spot h creep 
tides ang „3,28 broad as the dorsal sepal, violet-purple, the lower half with green 
Purple min aib and copious dark spots, and hairs; lip green flushed wi 
" nmutely warted, mouth green within; staminode green, base white. 
