Tas. 7746, 
CYPRIPEDIUM cortarum. 
Native of N.H. Europe, Asia, and N.W. America, 
Nat. Ord. OncHIDEH#.—Tribe CyPpriPpEeDIEA. 
Genus Cypripepium, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook, ¢ >" Plant. vol. iii. p. 634.) 
CyprirEpium (Diphylle) guttatwm; rhizomate repente, caulibus 6-12-pollicari- 
bus laxe pilosis, foliis 2 alternis sessilibus ellipticis v. orbiculari- 
ellipticis acuminatis v. apiculatis marginibus ciliatis 5-7-nerviis, floribus 
solitariis albis purpureo maculatig, bracta pollicari ovato-lanceolata 
foliacea. pubescente, sepalo dorsas.*amplo hemispharico, lateralibus in 
laminam angustam bidentatam v. bifidam viridem labello suppositam 
connatis, petalis lineari-oblongis sigmoideo-faleatis deflexis, labello fere 
globoso sepalum dorsale equante ore constricto, columnz staminew lobis 
lateralibus patentibus 2-lobulatis antheriferis, stamine sterili galeato 
aureo apicem versus crenulato, stylo decurvo crasso apice dilataio 
truncato. 
C. guttatum, Sw. in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1800, p. 251. Lindl, Gen. et 
Sp. Orchid p. 529. Reichb. Ic. Pl. Crit. vol. iii, p. 8, t. 210; £1. Germ. 
vol. xiii. pp. 166, 186, t. 495, 520. Lcdeb. Fl. Alt. vol. iv. p. 174; FV. Ross, 
vol. iv. p. 88, Hook, Fl. Bor. Am. vol. ii. p. 205. Fl. des Serres, vel. vi. 
p. 131, t. 573. . 
C. orientale, Spreng. Syst. Veg. vol. iii. p. 746. 
C. variegatum, Georgi, Itin. vol. i. p. 232, vol. ii. p. 719 (ex Ledeb.). 
The most remarkable character of this beautiful little 
Lady’s-slipper is its extraordinarily wide distribution. It 
inhabits Central Russia, from the longitude of Moscow 
to the Ural Mts., thence it extends through northern 
Asia to Kamtschatka, Manchuria, and the mountains of 
China from Peking southwards ; crossing Behring’s Straits 
by the Aleutian Islds. (in one of which, Unalaska, it has 
been found) it inhabits Alaska, and extends eastward to 
the Mackenzie River, where, at Fort Franklin, in N.W. 
Canada, it was. collected by Richardson during his and 
Franklin’s perilous Arctic journey. Nor is its distribution 
in latitude less notable, being from close upon the Arctic 
circle in N.E. Asia, and in N.W. America, southward 
in Asia to the mountains of Szechuen, in China, about 
lat. 30° N., and to the Hastern Himalaya, in the Tibetan 
province of Chumbi, between Sikkim and Bhotan, where 
it has been quite recently discovered by a collector from 
the Royal Botanical Gardens of Calcutta. 
November Ist, 1900. 
