C ^9 1 



Cypripedium arietinum. Ram's-head 

 Ladies-Slipper. 



*"* * * Mf •♦' j) [fr* * * * * ♦ i M' it 



Gynandria Dicynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cor. 4-petala (raro 5-petala) patens. Nefiarium ventricofum 

 mflatum. Stylus fuperne lobo petaloideo appendiculatas. 



Specific Character and Synonym, 



CYPRIPEDIUM arietinum; caule foliofo, foliis lanceolatis 



amplexicaulibus, corollis pentapetalis. 

 CYPRIPEDIUM arietinum. Brown inliort. Kew. vol. 5. inedit. 



Descr. Stem 4 — 6 inches high, covered with a foft pu- 

 befcence. Leaves ufually, befides the floral one, 4, alternate, 

 ftem-embracing, lanceolate, hollowed, many-nerved, fmooth, 

 palifh-green on both fides. BraBe leaf-like, lanceolate, ereB, 

 twice the length of the germen, which is incurved, angular, 

 not twifted. Corolla 5-petaled. Petals lanceolate, unequal : 

 upper one ere6t, broad-lanceolate, acuminate, three or four 

 times larger than the reft : the other four nearly equal, 

 linear-lanceolate, all lateral, incurved round the ne£tary, than 

 ^hich they are fhorter. Nectary or labellum coral-fhaped, white 

 chequered with red, very woolly at the upper part. Intermediate 

 filament (upper lip of the neftary, Linn.) flerile, round-fpoon- 

 Jhaped, bifijlcate within the hollow ; fide filaments Ihort, anther- 

 bearing : anthers ovate, whitifh : pollen white, globular. Style 

 jncurved: ftigma flattened, circular, with afmall projedion point- 

 ^g downwards. 



In the Cypripediums which we have before figured, as in raoft 

 of the genus, the two lower external petals are united together, 



and 



