Tab. 5508. 



CYPRIPEDIUM L.EVIGATUM. 



Glossy -leaved Ladys-slipper. 



Nat. OnL OucHiDEiE. — G-ynandria Diandria. 

 Gen. Char. {Vide supra, Tab. 5349.) 



Cypripedium Icevigatum; foliis distichis ensiformibus coriaceis obtusiusculis 

 lsevigatis immaculatis scapo pubescente strieto 3-5-floro brevioribus, brac- 

 teis ovatis acutis ovario 2-plo brevioribus, sepalis lateralibus connatis dor- 

 sali ovato acuto conformibus, petalis sepalis 4-plo longioribus linearibus 

 sursura in margine setoso-glanduligeris contortis acuminatissimis, labello 

 angusto oblongo acutiusculo, staminodio cordiformi emarginato. Bateman. 



C. lasvio-atum. Bateman, mss. 



This fine new Cypripedium was discovered by Mr. J. G. Veitcli 

 in the Philippine Islands, and by him sent to his father's esta- 

 blishment at Chelsea, where it bloomed for the first time in 

 March last. It is most nearly related to C. Stonei, the only 

 other species known to have glossy leaves, but differs from it in 

 the form and colour of its lip, which is small and of a dirty 

 yellow, while that of C Stonei is large, with a pink front on a 

 white ground ; the petals, too, of C. Stonei are not twisted, and 

 only twice the length of the -sepals, while in C. Icevigatum they 

 are much twisted, and at least four times the length of the sepals. 

 Again in C. Stonei the dorsal sepal is striped on the outside with 

 crimson, but is white within, whereas in C. Icevigatum the crim- 

 son stripes are all on the inside. 



Mr. Veitch found C. Icevigatum established upon the roots of 

 the well-known Vanda Balemanni, to obtain which was one 

 main object of his voyage, though he sought for it long in vain, 

 and had almost begun to despair of ever meeting with it, when 

 running his boat one day ashore in the bay of a small island, he 

 was delighted and astonished to find the rocks by the coast 

 covered with huge masses of the plant of which he was in quest. 

 As the Vanda affects a warm situation, the Cypripedium should 

 be treated in the same way. At Chelsea it is placed in the East 

 India house, where it grows freely. 



may 1st, 1865. 



