Tas. 7416. 
CYPRIPEDIUM Cuaarteswortatt. 
Native of Arracan. 
Nat. Ord. OrcurpEx.—Tribe CyrpripeDIE®. 
Genus Cyprivepium, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 634.) 
Cyrripepium (Coriaceew) Charlesworthii; foliis lineari-oblongis loratisve 
acutis laete viridibus, scapo unifloro hirsutuio virescente rubro maculato, 
bractea ovario breviore obtusa, ovario brevi costis purpureis hirsutis, 
sepalo dorsali magno orbiculari demum convexo roseo nervis sanguineis 
reticulato, sepalis lateralibus in laminam late ovatam obtusam vVires- 
centem pubescentem labello suppositam connatis, petalis planis patentibus 
lineari-oblongis obtusis pubescentibus luride flavo-viridibus nervis rufescen- 
tibus, labello petalis concolore saccato auriculis rotundatis, staminodio 
_ eburneo orbiculari disco tumido in cornu conicum producto, stigmate 
reniformo. 
C. Charlesworthii, Rolfe in Orchid Review, vol. i. pp. 308, 355, ewm Ic. 
Gard. Chron. (1893), vol. ii. pp. 406, 437, fig. 70. Journ. of Hortic. (1893), 
vol. ii. p. 307, fig. 43. Gartenflora, vol. xliv. p.1,t. 1410. Rev. Hortic. 
Belge (1894), p. 253, ewm Ie. Lindenia, vol. x. p. 25, t. 443. 
As observed by Mr. Rolfe, Cypripedium Charlesworthii is 
a very distinct species from any hitherto known, most 
nearly allied to C. Spicerianum, Reichb. f. (Bot. Mag. t. 
6490), and C. Drurii, Beddome (Lindenia i. t. 6), but well 
distinguished from both by (amongst other characters) the 
- rose-cold. dorsal sepals, and the horned boss on the disk of 
_ the staminode, in which respects it is unique in the genus. 
It is named in honour of the head of the firm of Messrs. 
Charlesworth, Shuttleworth & Co. of Heaton, Bradford, 
who were the importers of the species. 
The specimen here figured was purchased at an auction 
sale. It flowered in the Orchid House of the Royal 
Gardens in August of last year. It is a free flowerer, and 
the flowers show considerable variation in size and colour. 
Its native country is the province of Arracan, in the Bay 
of Bengal, one of the most unhealthy districts of India, — 
and hence unexplored botanically. It was found in com- 
pany with C. bellatulum, Reichb. f., a species the habitat — 
of which was previously unknown, and which species 18 
May Ist, 1895. 
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