foliage of the Indian Cypripedia, or of Episcia Chontalensis, 
figured in this number, which are consistent with healthy 
action of the cuticle and tissues of the leaf. 
Descr. A tall slender undershrub, sometimes six feet 
high, of slender habit, with large deep- green smooth — 
spreading leaves (blotched in the form here figured). Branches 
cylindric, slender, green, slightly tumid at the nodes. Leaves 
four to ten inches long, elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate, long 
acuminate, entire or obscurely crenulate, minutely pube- 
rulous on both surfaces, deep-green above, paler beneath ; 
petioles one and a half to three inches long, slender. Racemes 
terminal, naked, spreading and secund, compound at the 
base, four to eight inches long; rachis terete, pubescent, 
slender. lowers fascicled at intervals, subsessile; bracts 
filiform, equalling the calyx. Calyx one-third inch long, 
puberulous, segments subulate. Corolla tube one inch long, 
three to four times as long as the calyx, pale red; limb one 
and a quarter inches in diameter, deep vivid red, with a 
small white eye and darker blotch at the base of the lower 
lobe ; two upper lobes smaller, oblong, rounded ; two lateral 
larger than the upper; lower lobe orbicular, rather larger 
than the others. Anthers exserted, blue. Ovary puberulous ; 
style capillary, stigma notched.—/. D. 4. 
Fig. 1, Calyx, style, and stigma; 2, ovary and disk :—both magnified. 
