Tas. 5349. 
CYPRIPEDIUM Sronet. 
Mr. Stone’s Cypripedium. 
Nat. Ord. Orcuipe#: Tr. Cypripepe®.—GyNANDRIA DIANDRIA. 
‘Gen. Char. Perianthium patens. Sepala lateralia connata aut distincta, labello 
supposita. Petala \ibera, seepius angustiora. Labelium inflatum, margine 
utrinque auriculato inflexo. Columna nana. Stamina 3, quorum unum sterile, 
centrale, dilatatum, inflexum, et 2 fertilia lateralia. Anthere sub stamine sterili 
latentes, subrotunde, biloculares. Pollen pulticeo-granulosum. Stylus subliber, 
teres, stigmate disciformi terminatus. (Capsula unilocularis.\—Herbe terrestres 
utriusgue orbis, ab aquatore fere ad circulum arcticum vigentes. Folia radicalia 
aut caulina. Flores solitarii, racemosi v. paniculati, speciosi. Lindl. 
CypriPepiIuM Stonei ; acaulis, folis binis pedalibus oblongis coriaceis obtusis 
brevi-mucronatis, scapo elongato atro-purpureo folia subeequante subtrifloro, 
bracteis lanceolatis conduplicatis acuminatis, sepalis duobus (lateralibus in 
unum connatis) amplis late ovatis acuminatis, petalis 5-uncialibus penden- 
tibus linearibus acuminatis basi ciliatis, labello unguiculato, ungue margini- 
bus introflexis apicé amplo cucullato calceolariformi, ovario sesquiunciali 
oblongo 6-angulari uniloculari, stamine sterili ovato carnoso obtusissimo, 
stigmate amplissimo obovato bilobo margine supra dense fimbriato. 
CyprirepiuM Stonei. Hort. Low. 
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This superb new species of Cypripedium was received in Oc- 
tober of the present year from the collection of J. Day, Esq., — 
of Tottenham. It was very recently imported from near Sarawak, — 
Borneo, by Messrs. Hugh Low and Son, of Clapton Nursery, 
who express a wish that it should bear the name of Mr. Day’s | 
able gardener, Mr. Stone. Nothing like this, as faras I know, 
has ever been received from the Old World; but it is evidently = 
allied to a species gathered by Ruiz and Pavon, in Peru, C. cau- 
datum of Dr. Lindley, figured at t. 659 of our ‘ Icones Plantarum,’ 
from a dried specimen, and without our having any knowledge _ 
of the foliage: but the form and size of the sepals and petals _ 
will abundantly distinguish it. 2 
Dxscr. Stemless. Roofs large, vermicular, fleshy. Leaves 
DECEMBER lst, 1862. 
