Tan. 8183. 
CYPRIPEDIUM peste. 
China and Japan. 
ORCHIDACEAE. Tribe CyPRIPEDIEAE. 
Cypriprpium, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Cen Plant. vol. iii. p. 684; Pfitzer in 
: Engl, Pflanzenreich, Orch, Pleon. p.28. 
Cypripedium debile, Reichb. f. Xen. Orch. vol. ii. (1874), p. 2238; Gard. 
Chron. 1905, vol. xxxviii. p. 442, fig. 166; Rev. Gen. Bot. 1901, t. 18, 
fig. 1-10; Franch. et Savat. Enum. Pl. Japon. vol. ii. p. 738; Matsumura 
Index Pl. Japon. vol. ii. p. 241; species nana, diphylla, foliis late ovatis, 
caulibus scapisque gracilibus glabris, floribus parvis. 
Herba terrestris, 10-15 cm. altus. Caulis gracilis, glaber, diphyllus. Folia 
opposita, late ovata, acuta, membranacea, 3-6 cm. lata, 3-5-nervia, venis 
secundariis reticulatis. Scapi 2-4 em. longi, arcuati. Bracteae lineares, 
acutae, 1°5-2°5 em. longae. Pedicelli 1 em. longi. Flores parvi; sepala et 
petala pallide viridia, basi brunneo-maculata, labellum album ore purpureo- 
striatum. Sepalum posticum ovatum, acuminatum. 1:3-1°5 em. longum. 
Sepala lateralia connata, ovato-oblonga, subobtusa, 1°2-1°4 cm _ longa. 
Petala oblonga, acuminata, 1°3-1°5 em. longa. Labellwm ovoideo-globosum, 
1-1-2 em. longum, ostio angusto. Staminodium spathulatum, cucullatum. 
-—Calypso borealis, Somoku Zusetsu, 1856, xviii. t.85,non Salisb. C. cardio- 
phyllum, Franch. et Savat. Enum. Pl. Japon. 1879, vol. ii. pp. 39 et 521. 
An anomalous little species, which was originally figured 
in the Japanese work, Somoku Zusetsu, in 1856, under the 
name of Calypso borealis, a mistake which was pointed out 
by Reichenbach, in 1874, when he briefly described the 
plant under the name of Cypripedium debile; his descrip- 
tion being based solely upon this old figure. Five years 
later Franchet and Savatier described a species under the 
name of C. cardiophyllum, basing it chiefly on a specimen 
collected on Fudsiyama, in the province of Nippon, by 
Savatier. They cited, however, the old figure above 
mentioned, and a still earlier one, in the Japanese work, 
Honzo Zufu, published in 1828, where it appeared without 
any botanical name. A reference to the work, however, 
shows a thoroughly characteristic coloured figure, with both 
flowers and young fruit. It is now known from several 
Japanese localities, and has also been found by Pere Farges 
Maron, 1908, 
