174 CXLVIII. ORCHIDEE. (J.D. Hooker.) [Cypripedium 
MALAY PENINSULA ; Mt. Ophir, Lobb. 
Leaves 5-7 in., pale or dark green with dull blotches. Scape 9-12 in., 1-fd.; 
flowers ciliolate, 4 in. diam. ; dorsal sepal white striped with green; petals longer 
than the dorsal sepal, white veined with green; lip brownish purple, inflexed, lobes 
crimson, warted. 
14. C. barbatum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1841, Misc. 53; 1842, t. 17; 
leaves oblong to liuear-oblong acute tessellate, scape 1-2-fld. pubescent, 
bract much shorter than the ovary, dorsal sepal broadly ovate or orbicular 
acute or obtuse, petals longer linear-oblong spreading and decurved ciliate 
and with a few black warts along the upper or both margins, lip helmet- 
shaped mouth dilated, staminode hypocrepiform. Bof. Mag. 4994; Fl 
des Serres, ii. t. 190, and xviii. t. 1879 (var. grandiflorum); Belgique 
Hortic. xxxiii. 96, t. 7; Warner Sel. Orchid. Ser. 9, t. 11 (var. Warneri); 
Veitch Man. 12. Gard. Chron. 1886, ii. 308, f. 63. C. purpuratum, Wight 
Jc. t. 1760 (not of Lindl.). C. Warnerianum, Reichb. f. iw Gart. Zeit. 
1883, fasc. ix. C. orbum, Beicht, f. im Gard. Chron. 1887, ii. 778. C. 
Crossii, Belg. Hortic. xv. 227 ; Veitch Man. 12, with fig. 
PrwaNG, Maingay. MALACCA; on Mt. Ophir, Griffith, &c.—DrsrRIs. W. 
Siam. 
Leaves 4-8 in., pale green above with darker oblong spots. Scape 10-12 1m.; 
flowers 2-3 in. diam.; dorsal sepal folded in the middle, white with purple veins and 
greenish base, lower connate sepals much narrower; petals greenish brown towards 
the base, purple towards the tip; lip dark purple. Variable in the size and colour 
of the flowers. Veitch retains two varieties, 1, Crossii, leaves paler with more 
scattered deep green spots, under which are OC. Warneriana and orba, and 2, 
Obrieni, with leaves paler, spots smaller, petals and lip deeper coloured.—C. orbum 
is described as a hybrid by Reichenbach, but Veitch regards it as a synonym of var. 
Crossit. 
15. C. Parishii, Heichb. f. in Flora, 1869, 322; in Gard. Chron. 
1869, 814, with fig. ; leaves ligulate 2-fid not tessellated, scape stout 4-7-fid., 
bracts spathaceous, dorsal sepal suberect broadly elliptic-ovate with the 
basal margins revolute, petals very long linear pendulous twisted marg 
sparsely warted below, lip helmet.shaped, staminode obovate-oblong 
obtusely 2-fid, base spurred. Bot. Mag. t. 5791; Williams Orchid. Alb. 
ii. t. 86; De Puydt. Orchid. 188; Orchidoph. 1887, t. 91. Ill. Hort. 1815, 
214; Gard. Chron. 1869, 814; Veitch Man. 41. Selenipedium Parishii, 
Rev. Hort. 1885, 132. 
TENASSERIM ; at Moulmein, Parish. . 
Leaves 9-15 by 14-24 in., glossy green. Scape 12-18 in., pale green, hairy; 
bracts and hirsute ovary green ; flowers 3—4 in. diam. ; dorsal sepal arched, keeled, pat? 
yellow green; petals 4-6 in. long, spreading, at length pendulous, basal half green 
with pale undulate margin and a few bristly marginal tubercles, the other half dark 
purple, tip obtuse pubescent ; lip green or stained with purple, mouth green within; 
staminode greenish yellow, margins white. 
112. APOSTASIA, Blume. 
Terrestrial herbs, with a short caudex and leafy rigid stems. Le?" 
narrow, strongly nerved. Flowers small, in terminal or axillary simple K 
panicled often decurved or deflexed spikes. Sepals, petals and lip all equ? 
and alike, free, spreading or recurved. Ovary very slender, 3-cel ed. 
Column short ; anthers 2, at the sides of the rostellum, shortly stipitate 
narrow, erect, 2-celled, cells parallel; staminode erect, behind the stigma, 
