Tas. 5024. 
CYPRIPEDIUM Farricanum. 
Mr. Fairie’s Lady's Shipper. 
Nat. Ord. OrncHIDACE®.—GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4901.) 
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CypRIPEDIUM Fairieanum ; foliis loriformibus concoloribus apice obliquis apicu- 
latis, seapo piloso, bractea brevi pallida apiculata, ovario glanduloso-piloso, 
sepalis glanduloso-pilosis dorsali erecto subrotundo apice recurvo antico bre- 
viore concavo oblongo obtusissimo, petalis lanceolatis obtusis decurvis re- 
flexis margine crispis et basi intus fimbriatis, labello sepalo antico duplo 
longiore glabro oblongo basi convoluto, stamine sterili lunato, proboscideo 
piloso margine antico utrinque unidentato. Lindi. 
CypriPEpiuM Fairieanum. Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 18517, p. 740 c. 
Of this charming plant we have received specimens from Mr. 
Myland, the able gardener to Mr. Reid, of Burnham, Somerset- 
shire, and from which our drawing was taken; and we have since 
had a flowering plant sent by Mr. Parker, of the Hornsey Nursery. 
In both cases the plants were, we believe, obtained at a sale of 
East Indian Orchids, at Stevens’s Rooms, of a collection sent from 
Assan. The same plant has been exhibited lately at the Exhi- 
bition of the Horticultural Society, in Willis’s Rooms, by Mr.» 
Fairie of Liverpool, and from which Dr. Lindley drew up his de- 
scription above quoted. ‘It is,” says Dr. Lindley, “an exquisitely 
beautiful species in the way of Cypripedium insigne, than which 
the flowers are much smaller. It seems nearest to C. superbiens, 
of Reichenbach, but is much smaller in every part, has no warts 
on the involute sides of the lip, is quite differently coloured, and 
has a long proboscis-like appendage arising from the middle of 
the concave side of the crescent-shaped sterile stamen.”’ Our 
flowering specimens were received in October. ‘The blossoms 
are certainly amongst the most exquisitely coloured and pencilled =» 
of any in this fine genus. * 
DECEMBER IsT, 1857. 
