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lined in rose-crimson on a dead-white ground, and with a pouch of deeper flush. 

 Striking as is this bloom, there is a Cypripedium, form or species, occurring 

 rarely in the Siku gorges (where the common leafy stalwart does not appear) 

 which yet surpasses it — a thing of smaller, slighter growth with few leaves, and 

 those near the base of the 8-inch stem, leaving free play to a long and rather 

 woolly peduncle supporting an enormous bulge-bagged blossom of very much 

 deeper colour, especially in the uniform maroon crimson of the inflated round 

 lip (? C. fasciolatum). This is represented only by specimens and a painting ; 

 of the others I sent home pods to an orchidist to raise. (The last is C. 

 tibeticum.) 



Cypripedium lute urn (F 138) is a most glorious plant, precisely copying 

 C. Reginae (C. spectabile) in all points of stature, amplitude, and habit, but 

 that the comely round flowers are of a clear yellow, with a waxen sulphur lip. 

 The segments are sometimes mottled with a few fleshy stains, the lip is freckled 

 within, and the staminode in some forms, but not all, is, or goes, of a rich choco- 

 late which gives Proud Margaret her especial look of well-fed intelligence. The 

 Eed Slippers haunt the scrub and copse edges up to about 8000 feet, and there 

 begins C. luteum, occasionally joining them, but beginning thus at the top of 

 their distribution, and ascending for nearly 1000 feet higher. We saw it in 

 bud amid the overblown Red Slippers opposite Satanee in the end of May, 

 and peasants, seeing us pick the red ones (which are powerful magic) told us 

 also of the yellow ; in the Siku gorges the plant occurs handsomely, and Purdom 

 has a record of it from a wood beyond Minchow. It grows behind Siku, in 

 sudden outbursts : here a great patch, or an abundant colony, and then no 

 more. Usually it likes a half-shady slope, in and out among scant scrub on the 

 edge of a glade ; but I have seen it magnificent in shallow moss and mould 

 on the top of a boulder in dense fir-tree shade ; while one of the finest and yellow- 

 est drifts of all was growing in hard fibrous loam among coarse turf in fullest 

 sun; while in the loose, burnt humus opposite Satanee it was trying to rival 

 C. calijornicum in stature. From all this it should result that Proud Margaret 

 should easily, in any fair conditions, impart an ample share of pride to her 

 possessor, so long as he remembers that, for all her resemblance in style to 

 C. Reginae, she is not a bog-plant like the Queen-Slipper, but a haunter of 

 light woodland fringes in the cool well-watered Alps of China. Dormant crowns 

 of this have been copiously sent, and I hope the Sleeping Beauty will ere long 

 satisfactorily awake. (But she never did.) 



Cypripedium Sp. (F 139) has not been sent. It is a wee, running thing, 

 with pairs of leaves, and stems about 2 inches high, and green-segmented 

 half-open tiny flowers, with a lip of brilliant waxy gold, whelked and warted 

 and buckled like Bardolph's nose. It careers about occasionally in mossy 

 grass in opener places of the mountain woodland, in such close association with 

 C. luteum as often to run in and out among its stems. It has not only the 

 exotic look of a wee Catasetum, but a Catasetum's heavy and cloying exotic 

 scent of aromatics. I only noted it once, in the Siku gorges. (C. Bardolphianum, 

 Sp. nova.) 



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