TAR. 4210: 
CYPRIPEDIUM vFasocrcuLatum. 
Var. Pusillum. 
Native of North-West America. 
Nat. Ord, OncuipEs. Tribe CyprIPEDIER. 
Genus Crrrirepium, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii, p. 634). 
Cyprirepium (Diphyllex); caule scapo pedicellisque glanduloso-pilosis, foliis 
elliptico-oblongis rotundatisve obtusis membranaceis subtus parce pilosis, 
floribus subcorymbosis parvulis glabris, bracteis ovarium superantibus 
lanceolatis glabris, sepalis patulis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis extus 
fusco-purpureis intus aureis rubro striatis, lateralibus ad apices con- 
natis, petalis sepalis consimilibus, labello stramineo fere globoso sepalis 
dimidio breviore, ore semicirculari, columna brevi, staminodio anguste 
trulliforme subtrilobo ciliolato. 
C. fasciculatum, Kellog ex S.. Wats. in Proc. Am. Acad. vol. xvii. (1882), 
p- 380; and in Garden and Florist, vi. p. 90, £. 16. 
Var. pusillum; minus, foliis crassioribus, nervis obscuris. ©. pusillum, Rolfe 
in ee Bullet. No. 69 (Sept. 1892), p. 211; in Gard. Chron. 1892, vol. 
ii. p. 364. 
A very interesting little species as being the only one of 
the two-leaved section with opposite membranous leaves, 
hitherto discovered, which bears more than one flower. 
Of the other species of this section one alone is American, 
C. acaule, a very widely spread plant in the United 
States and Canada, and which is one of the earlier intro- 
duced exotic orchids, being figured at t. 192 of this work, 
just a century ago. All the others are Asiatic, and in- 
clude O. elegans, Reichb. f. from the borbers of Tibet and 
the Sikkim Himalaya ; C. margaritaceum, Franchet, from 
Western China ; 0. Henryi, Rolfe (in Kew Bullet.) from 
Hupeh in China; C. debile, Reichb. f. from Japan; and 
the most singular of all, C. japonicum, Thunb., with 
flabelliform leaves having flabellate nerves, a plant more 
deserving of cultivation than any of the preceding. 
C. fasciculatum was discovered on the banks of the 
White Salmon River, above the falls, in Washington 
Territory, by W. N. Suksdorf, in 1880; and has since 
Janvary Ist, 1893. ' 
