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Tas. 4901. 
CYPRIPEDIUM purpuratvum. 
Purple-stained Lady’s Slipper. 
Nat. Ord. OrcHIpE®.—GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Perianthium patens. Sepala lateralia connata aut distincta, labello 
supposita. Petala libera, sepius angustiora. Ladellum inflatum, margine 
utrinque auriculato inflexo. Colwmna nana. Stamina 8, quorum unum sterile 
centrale dilatatum inflexum, et 2 fertilia lateralia; anthere sub stamine sterili 
latentes, subrotundo-biloculares. Pollen pulverulento-glandulosum. Stylus sub- 
liber, teres, stigmate disciformi terminatus.—Herbee ¢errestres utringue orbis, ab 
equatore fere ad circulum arcticum vigentes. Folia radicalia aut caulina, coriacea 
aut plicata. Flores solitarii racemosi v. paniculati, speciosi. Lindl. 
CYPRIPEDIUM purpuratum; acaule, foliis oblongis acutis striatis maculatis basi 
equitantibus, scapo aphyllo pubescente, sepalo dorsali acuminato margine 
revoluto, petalis ovali-oblongis acutis marginibus superne precipue ciliatis 
(non verrucosis), stamine sterili lunato. 
Cypripeprum purpuratum. Lindl. Bot. Reg. v. 23. ¢.1991. Wight, Ic. Plant. 
Ind. Or. v. 5 t. 1760? 
We have already, under our Cypripedium barbatum (Tab. 
4234), indicated the very close affinity between that and C. ve- 
nustum, Wall., and our present plant. The chief distinction rests 
on the absence of the warts at the upper edge of the petals, and 
those petals are in the plant before us much broader than those 
of C. darbatum ; but their characters seem constant, and we think 
that Cypripedium (so called) purpuratum of Dr. Wight, above 
quoted, should rather be referred to C. darbatum, for the petals 
are very narrow, and though the verruce themselves are not dis- 
tinctly exhibited (the drawing being most likely taken from the 
dried specimen), yet the marginal hairs are represented in tufts, 
as if they grew from warts. It is a lovely species, whether the 
size and beauty of the flowers or the mottled foliage be consi- 
dered : native of the Malayan Archipelago, and flowers in a damp 
stove in November. A 
Duscr. Stem none. Leaves radical, the longest four to five — 
inches long, oblong, moderately acute, often bi-trifid at the point, — 
distichous, sheathing and equitant at the base; the surface is _ 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1856. 
