in Western China, in the Tchen-kéou-tin district of the pro- _ 
vince of Szechuen. A single plant has also been collected _ 
by Mr. E. H. Wilson, at an altitude of 7,000 feet in the same — 
province, though the precise locality has not been stated. 
Descriprion.— Herb, terrestrial, 4—6 in. high. Stem slender 
glabrous, two-leaved. Leaves broadly ovate, acute, mem 
branous, 14-2 in. broad, with three to five primary nerves, 
secondary veins reticulated. Scapes 3—1? in. long, arching. 
Bracts linear, acute, 4-1 in. long. Pedicels over 4 in. long. | 
Flowers small, with pale green sepals and petals, each 
bearing a dark brown blotch at the base, forming a zon 
round the column, sometimes striped with brown, and witl 
a white lip streaked with purple round the mouth, Dor. 
sepal ovate, acuminate, $3 in. long; lateral sepals conn 
into an ovate-oblong, subobtuse limb, slightly longer than 
the dorsal. Petals oblong, acuminate, as long as the dorsal 
sepal. Lip ovoid-globose, nearly 4 in. long, much narrowed 
at the mouth. Staminode spathulate, cucullate—R. A. 
RoLrFe. 
CuLtivation.—Roots of this interesting little orchi 
were purchased from the Yokohama Nursery Company 
They were planted in pans of leaf-mould and choppe 
sphagnum and kept in an unheated frame where they flowered 
in April. Although lacking the attractions of size an 
colour so usual in the genus, Cypripedium debile has charms 
of its own, and is quite worthy of a place among sel 
“ Alpines.” It is probably sufficiently hardy to be grown 
aetrgerhs in the open air, although, owing to their 
pose, the flowers would be practically hidden unless the 
plants were set on the high ledge of a rockery, or grown, 
as at Kew, in a pan and placed whilst in flower on the stage 
of a greenhouse.— W. Warson. nn 
Fig. 1, side of lip, in section; 2 and 3, side and front views of ; 
column :— 
all enlarged. eee 
