Cypripedium.] tient, oRcHIDEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 173 
Assam (Low's and Sander’s Collectors). 
Leaves 6-9 in., dark green, margins more or less waved, beneath purple-spotted 
near the base. Scape 9-12 in., siender, pubescent ; bract narrow; flowers about 
3 in. diam.; dorsal sepal horizontal, sides at the base so stoutly reflexed as to 
appear clawed, white base purple dotted on a green ground, midline purple ; petals 
shorter than the lip, obtuse, yellow- or olive-green with a red median band and 
spots; lip brown, tinged with crimson; staminode ‘red, edged with white, base 
contracted into auricle-like folds, 
8. Petals narrower than the dorsal sepal, very long in C. Parishii, 
margins bearded or hirsute and warted. 
l. C. venustum, Wall. in Bot. Mag. t. 2199; Cat. 7023; leaves 
elliptic-oblong or loriform tessellate, scape 1-2-fld., bracts half as long as 
the ovary, dorsal sepal broadly ovate or cordate, petals linear-oblong 
bearded sparsely warted, lip subcylindric reticulate, staminode semi-lunate. 
Ml. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 530; Hook. Exot. Flor. t. 35; Bot. Mag. t. 2129 ; 
Bot, Reg. t. 788; Beicht, Fl. Exot. 100; Lodd. Bot. Cal. 585; Warner Bel. 
Orchid, ii. t. 24; Veitch Man. 53. C. pardinum, Reichb. f. in Gard. 
a 1869, 554, and 1887, i. 382, fig. 76 (pardinum var.); Flor. Mag. 
EN. 
TROPICAL SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 3-4000 ft., J. D. H., Clarke. SILHET and 
Assam, Wallich, Griffith, &c. 
Leaves 4-10 in., dark green, marbled with pale green above and dull purple 
da eath, Scape 6-9 in., pubescent ; flowers 2-24 in. diam. ; dorsal sepal white with 
i rk stripes ; petals spreading, subspathulate, green and purplish, warts blackish ; 
IP yellow green, flushed with pink, and with green reticulations, inflexed Jobes 
Yellow nearly closing the mouth.—The var. pardina has larger flowers, whiter 
*pals, and larger and more scattered wart on the petals. 
ul © Fairieanum, Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1857, 740; leaves linear- 
omg or loriform not tessellate, scape slender 1-fld., bracts half as long as 
e glandular hairy ovary, dorsal sepal large erect suborbicular obtuse, 
vith V inear-lanceolate faleately upcurved margins crisped bearded and 
th lack tubercles, lip slipper-formed pubescent, staminode orbicular 
23 deep notch and included sput in front. Bot. Mag. t. 5024 ; Fl. des 
^mt. 1244; Xen. Orchid. ii. 108, t. 1335 Orchid. Alb. ii. t. 70; Veitch 
an 24, with fig, , 
mm, Tronson Ic. in Hort. Calcutt 
wé 1-6 in., sette, bright green. ape 4-6 in., green 5 bract green ; ovary 
AL flower 21-3 in. diam. ; dorsal sepal greenish white with broad purple reticu- 
With nerves, ciliate, margin waved, keel hairy; petals yellow- or greenish-w ite 
cepi purple nerves and margins; lip green with purple veins and spots ; stamino ° 
ad notched and 3-fid in front, side lobes acute incurved, midlobe as long, straigh 
5 
13. ©, su . . 5. 997; in Algem. 
e ; Superbiens hb. f. in Bonpland. 1855, 22/7; n g 
tenet 1856, 323, KO ii. 9, i 103; leaves elliptie-oblong 
otbjent D: SCape l-fld, bract much shorter than the ovary, dorsal sepal 
hai ovate acute, petals broadly linear deflexed fringed with, d in 
warted, lip helmet-shaped, staminode suborbicular _notche M 
-lobed. Gartenfl. 1863, 49; Warner Sel. Orchid. ii. t. 12 ; 4 05. 
La eh È 1996; Veitch Man. 51, with fig.; Gard. Chron. 1886, ii. Wë 
frontisp. C. Veitchianum, Ill. Hort. xii. t. 429; De Puydt, Les Orchid. 
D. p. 267; Rev. Hortic. 1871, 595, fig. 78, 79. C. barbatum Veitchii, 
8 Serres, t. 1453. Q. barbatum superbum, Belg. Hortic. 1883, 97. 
