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[Plate 9.] 
THE LONG-TAILED LADY'S-SLIPPER 
(CYPKIPEDIUM CAUDATUM.) 
* 
from Peru, belonging to the Natural Order of 
J&ji critic Character, 
T//£ LONG-TAILED LADY'S-SLIPPER. — Stemless. | CYPRIPEDIUM CAUBATUM.-Acmle ; foliis distichis 
Leaves distichous, sword-shaped, leathery, smooth, spot- 
less. Scape erect, bearing several flowers, longer than the 
leaves. Bracts like spathes, as long as the ovary. Sepals 
ovate-Ian ceoiate, gracefully curved. Petals extended into 
very long pendent wavy linear tails. Lip oblong, glan- 
dular on the edge, near the base. Sterile stamen broader 
than long, 2-lobed, with bristles on the ends of its lobes. 
ensiformibus coriaceis glabris immaeulatis scapo stricto 
plurifloro brevioribus, bracteis spathaceis ovarii longitu- 
dine, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis arcuatis, petalis in caudaa 
longissimas pendulas flexuosas lineares productis, labello 
oblongo margine versus basin glanduloso-serrato, stamine 
sterili transverso bilobo apicibus setosis. 
Cypripedium caudatum : Lindley, Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants^. 531 
^pHis extraordinary plant was for many years known only by a few fragments 
Quito 
hamlet of Nanegal 
to Europe in a living state. 
with 
Subsequently, the collectors of Messrs. Yeitch, 
obligations to Mrs. Lawrenc 
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nrst succeeded in bringing it into flower, and who exliibited it to the Horticultural Society in March 
last* SJn^P tli«if fimn « u^l,^ ™^, # — 1,_ l.l«^« rtW >«^ „,VK TIT* n "R IV^™***. 
imen has blossomed with Mr. U B- Warner 
The accompanying plate is a faithful representation of the plant as it flowered at Ealing Park, 
but is far from giving an adequate idea of the natural beauty of the species. The great sheathing 
bracts, which in South America are as large as those of a Heliconia, were mere abortions ; and we learn 
from drawings brought home bv Mr. "Warczewitz that the flowers are very much larger and finer- 
coloured in its native swamps 
brown, orvimr emit* on^fV.^- 
remains of six flowers of this sort, placed at the end of a scape more than two feet high. 
The petals are the extraordinary part of the species. In most Lad; 
and little distinguishable from the semis : but here the? extend into 
numerous, and of a rich warm 
[iartweg's dried specimens are 
