CYPRIPEDIUM. 157 
purple; petals 3in. long, deflexed, wavy, white, with green 
stripes and rosy tips, the surface covered with purple eye- 
like spots; pouch broad, brown-purple. This requires 
tropical treatment. It flowers in March or April. Native 
of the Philippine Islands; introduced in 1873. 
Botanical Magazine, t. 6175. 
There are several named varieties, the best of them 
being Moensiz, which has larger flowers, with petals more 
thickly spotted, than the type. 
Fig. 40. Flower of Cypripedium barbatum 
(3 nat. size). 
C. barbatum.—An old favourite, which is still very 
popular, on account of both its variegated foliage and the 
large, dark-coloured flowers. The leaves are strap-shaped, 
