Tab. 7573. 



PAPHIOPEDILUM Victoria-Marine. 



Native of Sumatra. 



Nat. Ord. Orchide.e. — Tribe Cypripedie.£. 

 Genus Paphiopedilum, (Pfitzer, Morphol. Stud. Orchid, p. 11.) 



Paphiopedilum Victoria- Marise; foliis late lineari-oblongis apioe rotundatis 

 et emarginatis, supra saturate viridibus tessellatis subtus pallidis uni- 

 coloribus, scapo valido rufo-brunneo superne inter flores hirsuto, 

 racemo plurifloro diu persistente et florente, noribus seriatim evolutis, 

 bracteis magnis cymbiformibus obtusis ciliatis herbaceis fusco-rubro 

 striatis, ovario breviter pedicellato 2£ pollicari stricto piloso, floribus 

 amplis, sepalo dorsali 1| poll, lato eri'cto orbiculari viridi marginibus 

 late albis ciliolatis, disco sanguineo bic illic striato, lateralibus in laminam 

 labello suppositam late ovatam obtusam viridem conHuentibus, petalis 

 sepalis longioribus divaricatis linearibus tortis et undulatis ciliatis viri- 

 dibus fusco-purpureo fasciatis et marginatiB, labello elongato sepalo 

 dorsali longiore obtuso pnrpureo, ore dilatato, marginibus viridibus, lobia 

 lateralibus rostratis, staminodio ovato acuto basi pilosulo. 



P. Victoria-Marias, Bolfe in Orchid. Rev. vol. iv. (1896) p. 364 (Papbiope- 

 dium). 



Cypripedium Victoria-Maria3, Solfe I.e. p. 110. 



The time has come, in the opinion of most orchidolo- 

 gists, for separating generically the tropical from the 

 temperate species of Cupvipedium, and adopting for the 

 former the name Paphiopedilum proposed by Dr. Pfitzer 

 (" Morphol. Stud. Orchid.," p. 11, 1886). Besides the wide 

 difference of geographical distribution, the true Oppripedia 

 being all natives of the colder temperate regions, and the 

 Paphiopedila of tropical Asia and Australia, the following 

 characters distinguish them. In Cypripedium proper the 

 leaves are cauline, thin, and plicate in vernation, the perianth 

 marcescent, and sepals valvate in aestivation. In Paphio- 

 pedilum the leaves are radical, coriaceous, and conduplicate 

 in vernation, the perianth deciduous, and sepals imbricate in 

 aestivation, the dorsal enfolding the lateral. Dr. Pfitzer has 

 further included Reichenbach's (American) genus Selenipe- 

 dlum (as,Sdcnipi'illlum)mh]s, Paphiopedilum ; and accepted 

 Ascherson's (" Brandenb. Flora," p. 77, 1864) conversion 



Januakj: 1st, 1898. 



