Lobbiane. ; N. O. Orchider. 
TAB. DCLVIII, DCLIX. 
CypripEDIuM caupatum,. Lindl. 
Elatum ferrugineo-pubescens 3-4-florum, foliis. . . . ? Ssepalis lan- 
ceolato-acuminatis inferioribus omnino connatis, petalis 
lanceolatis in caudam longissimam fere pedalem attenuatis, 
labello glabro ore birsuto, stamine sterili obtuso utrinque ala 
subtriangulari retusa ascendente apice pilosa, bracteis ad 
basin pedicellorum latis complicatis obtusissimis glabris. 
Cypripedium caudatum. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 531. 
Has. Interior of Peru, Ruiz and Pavon, in Herb. Hook., Mr. 
Lobb. 
An injured flower is all that was known of this plant when its 
necessarily imperfect character was drawn up by Dr. Lindley ; 
and that flower was derived from an Herbarium left by Ruiz . 
and Payon in Peru, and preserved in my collection. Mr, Lobb 
while collecting for Mr. Veitch of Exeter, in the Andes, cast 
of Lima, in the far interior, had the good fortune to meet with 
it, and sent home dried Specimens, and brought living roots of 
it with him as far as Jamaica; but they perished while he 
was there confined with a malignant fever. From one of the 
two above-mentioned specimens, for which I am indebted to 
Mr. Veitch, the accompanying figure was made; but here again 
I have to regret the absence of foliage, so that I cannot be sure 
it has a scape like the species of Northern India, or, as is most - 
likely, a leafy stem like our European and the North American 
and other Mexican species. In the latter case, the species 
must be a very stately one, for the upper portion, without the 
trace of a leaf is more than a foot long, everywhere clothed with 
2 Compact ferruginous down except on the bracteas, the lip, and 
the inside of the petals and sepals. The lower of the bracteas 
is 2} inches long, striated, broadly oval, very obtuse, folded 
double so as to embrace the pedicel and the main stalk 3; the 
upper Ones are gradually smaller, There are 3 flowers, and a 
trace of a fourth, larger than those of any known species, the 
structure of which will be better seen by the figure than any 
description in words, 
