Tab. 7178. 

 CYPRIPEDIUM Klotzschiaxuit. 



Native of British Guiana. 



Xat. Ord. Orchide^. — Tribe Cypripedie^e. 

 Genus Cypripedium, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. vol. iii. p. 63 i.) 



Cypripedium (Selenipedium) Klotzschianum; rhizomate repente, foliis pe- 

 dalibus vix ^ poll, latis rigidis caricinis acuminatis carinatis glaberrimis, 

 scapo glamiuloso-birsuto purpureo 2-3-vaginato 2-3-floro, bracteis oblongo- 

 lanceolatis erectis appressis, ovario pubesceute, sepalis pallidia roseo 

 striatis glanduloso-pilosis,dorsaliovato-lanceolato,lateralibus in laminam 

 cymbiformem subacutam labello subpositam confluentibus, petalis sepalia 

 concoloribus efc duplo longioribus linearibus tortis, labello viridi-flavo 

 oyato-oblongo ore contracto, stamine sterili 3-lobo lobis lateralibus 

 divaricatis falcatis marginibus parpureo-villosis. 



0. Klotzschianum, Reichb. f. ex Rich. SchomhurgJc Versuch. Faun. 8c Flor. 

 Brit. Guian. p. 1069 (1848) ; in Linncea, vol. xxii. (1849) p. 811 ; Veitch. 

 Man. Orchid, pt. iv. p. 63. 



C. Schomburgkianum, Klotzsch & Reichh. f. fid. Rich. Schomburgk, "Remi- 

 niscence of British Guiana " (Adelaide, 1876), p. 59. 

 Selenipedium Klotzschianum, Reichb. f. Xen. Orchid, vol. i. p. 3. 



G. Klotzschianum was discovered in British Guiana during 

 the late Sir Eobt. Schomburgk's second exploring expedition 

 into that country, when accompanied by his brother Richard, 

 late Director of the Adelaide Botanical Gardens, the news 

 of whose lamented death has only this month reached 

 England. Eichard Schomburgk was attached to his 

 brother's party as a naturalist in behalf of the Prussian 

 Government, and admirably he performed his duties as such, 

 to the great enrichment of the botanical museums of 

 Europe. In his charming " Botanical Reminiscences of 

 British Guiana," printed thirty years after the event, and 

 published in Adelaide in 1876, at p. 59, when describing 

 the magnificent scenery of the falls of the River Rue, 

 Schomburgk, dwelling on the luxuriance of the mosses and 

 ferns, goes on to say, " Even the crevices of the slippery 

 masses of jasper were not without living vestments of 

 small luxuriant vegetating ferns and Jungermannias, which 

 in more or less dense turf-like masses adhered to the red 



Jixk 1st, 1891. 



