Curivation.—The plants from which the plate here 
given has been prepared were grown, Messrs. Veitch 
inform us, at their Coombe Wood Nursery in a very shady 
and moist border of leaf-mould and peat. They find that 
the same treatment as that accorded to the hardy Cypri- 
pediums appears to suit this plant. 
Descriprion.—ferb. Stem erect, sometimes over 3 ft. 
high, 3 in. thick, flexuous, green with purple blotches, 
pubescent. Leaves sessile or shortly petioled, ovate-oblong 
or ovate, shortly acuminate, rounded at the base, many- 
nerved, more or less pubescent especially on the nerves, 
4 in. long, 14-2 in. broad. Racemes terminal, simple or 
branching ; pedicels slender, ~y in. long; bracteoles very 
small, ovate, pubescent. Perianth usually white or pale 
yellow, or (var. violacea) with violet tube and pale violet 
lobes ; tube cylindric, } in. long, } in. wide, base truncate ; 
lobes spreading, oblong-ovate, obtuse. Stamens adnate to 
corolla-throat ; filaments very short ; anthers oblong, obtuse. 
Ovary ovoid; style subulate, rather longer than ovary ; 
stigma 3-lobed, lobes triangular. a 
Fig. 1, section of flower (var. violacea); 2, section of flower (var. typica); 
3, pistil (var. violacea) ; 4, pistil (var. typica):—all enlarged. 
