Tan. 5614. 
CYPRIPEDIUM Scum, 
Schlim’s Lady’s-slipper. 
Nat. Ord. Orcutppm.—Gynanpris Monanpria. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5349.) 
Cyprirepium (SELENIPIDIUM) Schlimii; foliis coriaceis ligulatis acutis 
subpedalibus pedunculo hirsuto nune ramoso brevioribus; bracteis 
triangulis ancipitibus, ovario velutino, sépalis ovatis obtusis, superiore 
ovato, extus sericeo, inferiore subzquali (vel paulo majore) apice con- 
tracto cucullato, petalis sepalo summo majoribus, inferiori subequa- 
libus ; labello elliptico-saccato ostio angusto ; staminodio ovato pan- 
durato apiculato, stigmatis labio superiori triangulo, inferiori retuso 
lobato. Ex Reichenbach. 
SELENIPIDIUM Schlimii. Rchb. in Pescatorea, t. 34. Xenia Orch. t. 44. 
This pretty New Granada Cypripedium bears the name of 
its discoverer, M. Schlim, one of M. Linden’s most zealous 
collectors, who found it in “ moist places,” in the neighbour- 
hood of Ocafia, at an elevation of four thousand feet above 
the sea-level. It first flowered in M. Linden’s establishment 
in 1854. It was afterwards met with near La Cruz by 
Purdie, and on “dry banks”(!) according to the memorandum 
in the Hookerian herbarium. Possibly, however, the diffe- 
rent season of the year at which the plant was gathered by 
the respective collectors may explain the seeming discre- 
pancy. In this country it is still a rare plant, though it is 
easily grown in a mild temperature, especially if screened 
from the direct rays of the sun. It blooms in the late sum- 
mer and autumn months, always—when in vigour—producing 
flower-stems with at least one lateral, a peculiarity that is not 
represented in the figure, and which does not exist in the 
dried specimens. The drawing is taken from a plant exhi- 
bited at South Kensington in August last by Mr. Bull. 
DECEMBER Ist, 1866. 
