agree with Dr. Lindley that no sufficient case has yet been made 

 out for any such separation of the South American species from 

 the rest of the Cypripedia. 



C. caricinum flowered in May last in Messrs. Veitch's esta- 

 blishment in the King's Road. It had been kept in a hot and 

 moist stove, where it seemed to thrive ; but as its native habitat 

 is in a comparatively cool and elevated region, it will probably 

 succeed as well, or even better, under cool treatment. To such 

 indeed it has already been subjected at Knypersley, where it is 

 growing vigorously, though it has not yet flowered. Being a ter- 

 restrial plant it should be potted in good fibrous peat, and if its 

 travelling rhizomes are to have fair play it must have plenty of 

 space. 



Descr. Whole plant about a foot high. Leaves stiff, resembling 

 those of a sedge, and springing in tufts, at intervals of two or 

 three inches, from a travelling above-ground rhizome. Scape rising 

 clear of the leaves, furnished with two or three acute, slightly in- 

 flated, smooth bracts, which are shorter than the ovary. Flowers 

 three to six or more, expanding in succession, and for the most 

 part of a pale greenish hue, except that the sepals and petals 

 have a narrow white margin, while their extremities are tipped 

 with purplish-brown. The sepals (the two lower coalescing into 

 one) are broadly ovate, waved at the edges, and about the length 

 of the lip. Petals hanging down, very narrow, more than twice 

 the length of the sepals, much twisted. Lip of moderate size 

 (i. e. not so much puffed out as in many of the other species), of 

 an oblong form, open for about half its length, its upper edges 

 spread out flat, so as to make a plateau, on which the sterile 

 stamen (itself provided with two hairy processes, exactly resem- 

 bling a pair of black moustaches) seems to rest. Column short, 

 having on its under side a large roundish projecting callosity, 

 with tubercles on either side. {J. Bateman.) 



Fig. 1. Front view of lip. 2. Front view of apex of column. 3. Side view 

 of ditto : — magnified. 



