Tas. 4990. 
CYPRIPEDIUM uirsuTISsIMUM. 
Villous Lady's Slipper. 
Nat. Ord. OrturpE#.—GynanpRria Dranprtia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4901.) 
Cypripepium hirsutissimum ; acaule, foliis distichis elongatis loratis acutis cos- 
tatis enerviis basi carinatis canaliculatis equitantibus unicoloribus, floribus 
hirsutis, scapo bractea sepalisque dorso villosissimis, sepalo dorsali amplo 
latissime cordato-acuto, petalis amplis lato-spathulatis ungue profunde 
sinuato-lobato, sepalis lateralibus in unum ovatum coadunatis labello bre- 
vioribus, stamine sterili obtuse quadrato angulis obtusis. 
Cypripepium hirsutissimum. Lindl. MSS. 
A native of Java, we believe, and communicated to us by 
Mr. Parker, of Hornsey, who purchased it at a sale of East 
Indian plants. It is an extremely handsome species of the 
stemless group of Cypripedium, allied to C. insigne, villosum, 
Lowii, and barbatum ; nevertheless abundantly distinct from all. 
The first of those just mentioned, “ C. insigne, is only tomen- 
tose, and its petals want the spathulate form, long hairs, and 
strong undulation; C. vid/osum has longer flowers, no undula- 
tion or beard or ciliation of the petals, and has the sterile sta- 
men truncate, not quadrate. Of C. Lowii, the long, flat, naked 
petals are quite different. C. barbatum has a circular, not qua- 
drate, sterile stamen, spotted short leaves, and wants the shag- 
iness. In C. purpuratum the sterile stamen 1s lunate, ete. 
(Lindl. MSS.);—to which may be added the marking of the 
flowers, and the colour, which is particularly rich, of various 
tints of purple and green, brighter and handsomer than in any 
species known to me. It flowered in the stove in April 1858. 
Descr. Stemless. Leaves often a foot and more long, linear- 
oblong or ligulate, acute or bifid at the pomt, distichous, cari- 
JUNE Ist, 1857. 
