Tab. 7629. 

 PAPHIOPEDILUM Mastersianum. 



Native of Java. 



Nat. Ord. Orchide^. — Tribe Cypkifedie^:. 

 Genus Paphiopediltjm (Pfttzer, Morphol. Stud. Orchid, p. 11.) 



Paphiopedilum M astersianum ; robustum, foliis late lineari-oblongis obtusis 

 supra tessellatia subtus pallidis, scapo valid or ufo-brunneo pilia patentibua 

 purpureis hirsuto 1-2-floro, iloribus magnis 4 poll, latis, perianthio 

 crassiusculo, bracteis 1J poll, longis cymbiformibus herbaceis, ovario fere 

 tripollicari angulis hirsutis, sepalo dorsali erecto 2 poll, lato orbiculari 

 ciliolato intus stramineo viridi striato nervis dorso hirsutis, lateralibus in 

 laminam minorem viridem late ovatam obtusam labello breviorem con- 

 fluentibus, petalis sepalis longioribus divaricatia lineari-oblongis apice 

 rotundatis i'usco-purpureis ciliatis basin versus verrucis purpureis ornatis, 

 labello sacciformi fusco-purpureo versus orem subdilatatum amplum 

 flavido, marginibus inflexis punctatis, staminodio parvo viridi ambitu 

 orbiculari hippocrepiformi cuspidibus acutis. 



0. Mastersianum, Tfitz. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vol. xix. (1895) p. 40. 



Cypripedium Mastersianum, Reichb. f. in Gard. Ohron. 1879, vol. ii. p. 102, 

 Masters, I. c. 1894, vol. i. p. 593, t. 74. Yeitch, Man. Orchid, part. iv. p. 39. 

 IAndenia, vol. iv. t. 159. Rolfe in Orchid. Rev. vol.ii. p. 17, rig. 4. 



A very robust and large-flowered species of the ex- 

 tensive genus Paphiopedilum, first described by Reichen- 

 bacli in 1879, from a plant the native country of which 

 was then doubtful, but which country Mr. Rolfe has 

 ascertained to be Java, from a communication with Messrs. 

 Low, who recently imported it from that island. 



My reasons for adopting Pfitzer's generic name of 

 Paphiopedilum are given under Tab. 7573. I think they 

 are botanically unassailable, nevertheless I do not object 

 to the substitution o£ Cypripedium for it, in common par- 

 lance, just as I do of Aster chinensis for the " China 

 Aster," though that plant differs by important characters 

 from all the species of that vast genus, and is known to 

 botanists as Gallisteplms hortensis. The plant of P. Mas- 

 tersianum here figured, which flowered in the Tropical 

 Orchid House of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in March, 

 1898, was obtained from Messrs. F. Sander & Co. It is a 

 noble species, named in compliment to Dr. Masters, 

 F.R.S., through whose exertions, following those of his 



December 1st, 1898. 



