170 OXLVIII. ORCHIDE^. (J. D. Hooker.) .[Cypripedium. 



* Leaves several, alternate, plaited. 



2. C. cordigreruxnj Don Prodr. 37 ; sepals and narrower petals 

 spreading ovate-lanceolate acuminate green or white, lip oblong white, 

 staminode ovate- or oblong-cordate. Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 527 ; 

 Dene in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 165, t. 166. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Kashmir, alt. 9-11,000 ft., Clarice, to Kuuiaon, 

 alt. 7-9000 ft., Royle. 



Stem 10-24 in., robust or slender, and ovary puberulous. Leaves 3-6 by 2-4 in., 

 approximate or scattered, from nearly orbicular to lanceolate, acute or acuminate. 

 Flower solitary; bract 14 in., leafy ; sepals l-|-2 in., longer than the lip, the con- 

 nate lateral entire or split at the apex j column yellow. Capsule 1| in., erect, clavate. 

 As Lindley observes, this is not distinguishable except by colour from the European 

 C. calceolus, which extends from Britain to Dahuria. It would be well to compare 

 living specimens before uniting them. 



3. C. macranthon, Swartz in Act. Holm. 1800, 251 ; dorsal sepal 

 from linear- to ovate-oblong acute, connate lateral narrower, lip subglobose 

 much inflated purple, staminode ovate-oblong. LindL Gen. fy Sp. Orchid. 

 528 ; in Sot. Reg. t. 1534 ; Sot. Mag. t. 2938 ; Reichb. Fl. Exot. ii. t. 16, 

 No. 99; Ic. Fl. Germ. xiii. t. 498; Fl. des Serres, t. 1118 ; III. Sortie. 

 1857, t. 147 ; Selg. Hortic. vii. 353, t. 61 ; Gartenfl. 1863, t. 409 ; Trans. 

 Russ. Sort. Soc. 1863, t. 135 ; Orcliidoph. 1887, t. 75, f. 1 ; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. 

 iv. 87. 



ALPINE HIMALAYA ; from Garwhal to Sikkirn, alt. 11,500-14,000 ft. DISTRIB. 

 Northern and Subarctic Europe and Asia to Japan. 



Stem 1-1 ^ ft., usually very stout, pubescent. Leaves 3-6 by 2-4 in., ovate or 

 oblong, acute, puberulous. Flowers 1-2, l-2 in. diam. ; sepals and petals very 

 variable in length and breadth, longer or shorter than the lip, yellowish or greenish 

 v/ith dark purple stains, or all purple ; combined lateral acute or bidentate ; lip 

 inflated, light or dark purple, mouth small crenate, sides of ten grooved concentrically. 

 In Sikkim specimens gathered by myself, the dorsal sepal is broadly oblong 1 in. 

 long, and the petals as long but narrower and lanceolate, both yellow-green and 

 striped with dark red. 



VAR. ventricosa ; Carriere in Rev. Hortic. 1877, 310 ; dorsal sepal broader, 

 and petals usually much longer, often 2 in. long, lip very large 1-1 in. diam. C. 

 ventricosum, Swartz in Act. Holm. 1800, 251 ; Lindl. Gen. Sf Sp. Orc/iid. 529; Sweet 

 Fl. Gard. iv. t. 1; EeicJib. Ic. FL Germ. xiii. t. 497. Chumbi, in Tibet, N.E. of 

 Sikkim, King's Collector. Distrib. Siberia.' In King's Tibetan specimen, of which 

 he has lent me a drawing, the dorsal sepal is broadly ovate, 1 by * in., the petals 2 

 by f in., oblong-lanceolate, both white striped with red. 



** Leaves radical, distichous, oblong or lorate, coriaceous, not plaited. 

 Scape 1-3-Hd., pubescent or villous. 



a. Petals as broad as the dorsal sepal, short, sessile, broadly oblong, 

 margins not undulate nor ivarted. 



4. C. concolor, Batein. in Bot. Hag. t. 5513 ; leaves oblong or linear- 

 oblong tessellated, scape short 1-2-fld., sepals suborbicular and elliptic- 

 oblong petals yellow ciliate, sac of lip subcylindric, staminode subrhom- 

 boidly ovate apiculate. Ill Hort. 1865, t. 444 ; Gartenfl. 1874, t. 803 ; Fl. 

 des Serres, t. 2321 ; Williams Orchid. Alb. t. 302 ; Reiclib. f. in Gard. 

 Chron. 1865, 626 ; 1883, i. 19, fig. 3 ; Veitcli Man. 17, ivithfig. 



TENASSERIM ; near Moulmein, Parish. UPPER BURMA ; in the Shan hills, 

 Prayer. DISTRIB. Cambodia. 



