Tab. 6876. 
CYPRIPEDIUM Gopzrroy2. 
Native of Siam. 
Nat. Ord, Orcn1pex.—Tribe CypripEDIER. 
Genus Cyprrpepium, Linn; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 634.) 
CypriPepium Godefroye ; humile, foliis 6-8 glabris omnibus radicalibus distichis 
patenti-recurvis coriaceis lineari-oblongis acutis obtusis v. apice subbidentatis, 
supra lete viridibus albo irroratis, subtus luride purpureis virescenti-irroratis, 
scapis brevissimis 1-2-floris ovarioque tomentosis, bractea cucullata foliacea, 
floribus albis purpureo-punctatis, sepalo dorsali rotundato-cordiformi puberulo 
obtuso, lateralibus in laminam oblongam dorso villosam sepalo dorsali multo 
minorem confluentibus, petalis latissime ovato-oblongis obtusis sepalo dorsali 
majoribus, labello subcylindraceo ore subcontracto, staminodio punctato parvo 
oblongo-quadrato apice 3 dentato. 
C. Godefroy, Godefr. Bebeuf, Orchidophile, No. 31, t. 830; Moore, Florist and 
Pomologist, 1884, 37, with fig.; The Garden, vol. xxv. p. 396 with fig. ; 
Warner and Williams, Orchid. Album, vol. iv. t. 177; D’ Ancona in Bull. 
Soe. Tose. Ortic. 1884, 168, t. 8; Gard. Chron. 1884, vol. i. p. 146, and 
1885, vol. i. p. 49, fig. 11. 
A member of the same group of species of the genus as 
that to which C. concolor (Tab. 5513) and C. niveum (Tab. 
5922) belong, and in some respects, as pointed out by Dr. 
Moore in the “ Florist and Pomologist,’’ it is intermediate 
between those plants, having the white flowers of the latter, 
and the dwarf habit, bract and leaves more like C. concolor. 
It is, indeed, very closely allied to the latter plant, of which 
it has exactly the habit, but differs in the leaves not being 
barred with black and green above, or uniformly purple 
beneath, and in the smaller flower not being yellow, and 
having broader shorter sepals and petals copiously spotted 
with chocolate purple or brown, and in the staminode being 
three-toothed at the tip. Dr. Moore compared the stami- 
node to that of niveum, but I think he must have meant 
concolor ; for in nivewm that organ is very large and broad, 
transversely oblong, and is much larger than the mouth of 
the lip above which it is raised, whereas in C. concolor and 
-Godefroye it is much smaller than the mouth of the tip 
and more oblong. C. Godefroye is a native of calcareous 
MAY Ist, 1886. 
