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The Country Gcntlcniaiis Magazine 



NO. 5. — CYPRIPEDIUM MACRANTHOX. 



A species remarkable for the unusual in- 

 flation of the sac formed by the lip, and its 

 uniform delicate pale mauve colour. 



Flower solitary, of a uniform pale mauve or 

 pinkish purple colour, with the exception of 

 the inferior sepals (united into one), which 

 are greenish-brown. The lip very large, in- 

 flated, broadly oval, striated, and reticulated, 

 the mouth contracted and crenated, with a 

 white margin ; within the base it is hairy, and 

 spotted with purple. Sterile stamen, a flat 

 minutely glandular disc pedunculated, from 

 the back of which arises the elongato-cordate, 

 petaloid lobe, of a pale reddish colour. 



A stemmed species, 8 or 10 inches high, 

 with long ribbed leaves enclosing the stem. 



This is a Siberian species, and is said by 

 Gmelin to be frequent throughout the country 

 up to the 58° of north latitude, in open places 

 or in woods of scattered birches. Amman 

 found it at Tobolsk. 



Sir William Hooker (then Dr Hooker) 

 mentions in the "Botanical Magazine" (vol. 

 Ivi., tab. 2938), from which we have copied 

 our figure of the flower, that seeds had often 

 been sent by Dr Fischer of St Petersburg to 

 the Glasgow Botanic Garden, but that he 

 never succeeded in cultivating the plant until 

 roots were sent by him. 



