Tas. 5970. 
CYPRIPEDIUM LONGIFOLIUM. 
Native of Central America. 
Nat. Ord. OrcuipE&#.—Tribe, Cypripepiez, 
Genus Cyrripepium, Lindl. ; (Endl. Gen. Plant., vol. i. p. 220). 
Cyprirepium (Selenipedium) longifolium ; foliis distichis elongato-ligulatis 
longe attenuato acuminatis carinatis, scapo sparse puberulo multifloro 
bracteato, bracteis spathaceis lanceolatis acuminatis ovarium superanti- 
bus, sepalo dorsali ovato-lanceolato obtuso virescente, Jateralibus in 
laminam late ovatam labello equilongam suppositam obtusam connatis, 
petalis sepalis multo longioribus anguste elongato-lanceolatis virescen- 
tibus albo-marginatis linea rubra intramarginali percursis, labello ob- 
longo-ovoideo obtuso e viridi purpurascente, ore amplo antice emarginato, 
Jateribus lobulatis, staminodio triangulari-cordato, lateribus tumidis 
purpureo-villosis, ovario 3-loculari. 
Cyprivepiom longifolium, Warsz. et Rchb. f. in Bot. Zeit. 1852,-p. 690. 
SeLenrrepivum Jongifolium, Rchd. f. Xenia, Orchid., vol. i. p. 3; Beitr. Orchid. 
Cent. Amer. p. 44; Gard. Chron. 1869, p. 1206. ea 
By far the stateliest species of the genus hitherto dis- 
covered, and an exceedingly handsome plant, though by no 
means remarkable either for colour or form, as compared with 
some of its congeners. Its three-celled ovary places it in 
the genus Selenipedium of Reichenbach f.,and its habit in — 
close affinity with C. caricinwm, (Pearcii, Hort.: Tab. nost. 
5466); to which genus (which we are disposed rather to 
regard as a subgenus,) also belong C. caudatum, Lindl., and 
seven other species enumerated by Reichenbach, all of them 
American. : ee 
C. longifolium was discovered by M. Warszewicz, in the 
Cordillera of Chiriqui, in Central America, at an elevation ot 
5-8000ft, and introduced into Europe about ten years ago. 
The superb specimen here figured was exhibited at the Horti- 
cultural Society in January of the present year, by Mr. Bull, 
F.R.S., of Chelsea, and kindly by him placed at the disposal 
of the artist of the Botanical Magazine for figuring. 
JUNE Ist, 1872. 
