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may sea represent C. Thunbergii, Blume. It is sho own as an 
Moe with Cat beneath. The staminode is not den dT and 
the colouring of the lip is probably erroneous, for in the Japanese 
text the flower is described as “ yellow” (as kindly deciphered by 
Mr. Takeda). On the other side of the same page, however (t. 18, 
recto) is a coloured plate of the macranthum-like species figured in 
So mokou Zusetsu, the colour being shown as white, with numerous 
rose-pink lines on_ the sepals and petals, and numerous rose-pink 
spots on the lip. The latter detail is probably erroneous, for other- 
wise it agrees well with the Japanese plant now in atric and 
Mr. Takeda says that it represents the common Japanese species. 
This is the plant mentioned by Franchet and Savnsicr under 
C. macranthum as a doubtful species. 
We have therefore evidence that two quite distinct plants are now 
confused under a single name, one being the common Japanese 
species, now erroneously called C. Thunbergii, the other the true 
C. Thunbergii, Blume, whose history is still very imperfectly known. 
Whether there is a third species is at present doubtful. The 
former apparently requires a new name. The following is the 
revise -_ nymy. 
C. Thunbergii, Blume, Coll. Archip. Ind. et Jap. p. 169, t. 60, 
fig. 2; Pfitzer in Engl. Pflanzenreich, Arch. Pleon. p. 36, fie. 9 A, 
16 
C. “Calceolus, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 30. nec L. - 
C. macranthum, Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. " 142, nec Swartz. 
? C. Atsmori, Morr. in nen Hort. i. p. 171, t.21, fig. 1. 
? Honzo Zufu, xxxix. t. 
Japan, without precise ssadiay 
Only certainly known from lane! s original specimen. His 
figure of the lip is incorrectly drawn, the infolded angles of the side 
lobes, which are invariably included within the pouch in Cypri- 
pedium, beg represented as a pair of free external lobes. The 
character is repeated by Pfitzer. The species seems to have been 
lost sight of ; perhaps the present note may lead to its Derma 
and to the ‘clearing up of the doubtful points respecting it. I 
seems most allied to C. Calceolus, L., and the Himalayan C. cordi- 
gerum, Don. 
C. speciosum, Rolfe; a C. macrantho, Swartz, floribus pallidis 
roseo-striatis et staminodio acutiore differ 
C. macranthum var. ventricosum, Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. 
Jap. i. P. 40, excl. syn., nec Reichb. f.; Matsumura, Nomencl, 
Pl. Jap., p. 63. 
C. macranthos, Finet, in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. xlvii. p. 285, 
nec Swartz. 
C. Thunbergiit, Matsumura, Index Pl. J te ii, 242, excl. syn., 
nec nner Rolfe in Orch. Rev., xvi. p. 
mokou Zusetsu, xviii. t. 83; Honzo Za, xxxix. t. 18 (recto). 
A common Japanese species, hitherto confused with the preceding 
and with the Siberian C. macranthum, Swartz, but differing from 
the latter in the colour of the flowers, which are white or pink 
veined with rose, and in some small details of floral structure, It 
