Cypripedium.] CXLVIII. ORCHIDE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 171 



Leaves 3-5 in., crowded, obtuse, pale green above, fascicled with undulate bands 

 of dark green, purple or purple spotted beneath. Scapes 1-2 in. and cymbiform 

 bract dark purple; flowers 2-3 in. diara., pale yellow, sparsely dotted with purple; 

 petals hardly longer than the sepals ; lip small, mouth slightly dilated. Reichb. f. 

 describes (Gard. Chron. 1886, 294) a var. cTilorophylla with an interrupted line 

 of purple spots along the midribs of the sepals and petals, and var. sulphurina (1. c. 

 1888, ii. 264) with unspotted sulphur coloured flowers. Other vars. are torikinensis, 

 Lindenia, ii. t. 77, and Regneri, Orchidoph. 1886, 226. The C. Godefroyi of Siam 

 is very closely allied, but has dorsal sepals and petals broader than long, copiously 

 spotted, and a 3 -toothed starninode. 



5. C. niveum, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1869, 1038 ; Xen. Orchid. 

 ii. 155; leaves linear-oblong tessellated, scape elongate 1-2-fld., sepals 

 orbicular and broadly oblong petals ciliate, sac of lip ovoid mouth con- 

 tracted, staminode large transversely oblong. Sot. Mag. t. 5922; III. 

 Sort. 1871, t. 83 ; Flor. Mag. 1871, t. 543 ; Jennings Orchid, t. 28 ; Reichen- 

 bachia, i. t. 34; Gard. Chron. 1883, ii. ; fig. 1. Veitch Man. 39, with Jig. ; C. 

 concolor, var. nivea, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. I. c. 



STRAITS OF MALACCA ; Langkawi Islands, sjS*Wi of Penang. DISTEIB. Tambilan 

 Island, between Singapore and Borneo, and W. coast of Siam. 



Leaves 4-6 in., green above with darker blotches, lurid purple beneath. Scape 

 1-2-fld. ; bracts very short ; flowers 3 in. diam., pure white more or less dotted with 

 purple ; dorsal sepal very broad, stained with purple on the back ; petals rather 

 longer, variable in size and breadth ; starninode closing the mouth of the lip. 



/3. Petals as broad as the dorsal sepal or nearly so, spathulate, clawed, 

 margins not ^varted. 



6. C. villosum, Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1854, 125 ; leaves loriform, not 

 tessellate, scape elongate, villous bract nearly as long as the ovary, dorsal 

 sepal suberect obovate-oblong with the lower margins revolute and spathu- 

 late petals ciliate, lip helmet-shaped, staminode obovate base cordate. III. 

 Hort. iv. t. 126 ; Pescator. t. 48 ; Fl. des Serres, t. 1475. Lindenia, iii. 

 t. 132 ; Warner Sel. Orchid, ii. t. 30. Veitch Man. 54, with Jig. C. Boxalli, 

 Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1877, i. 367 ; III. Hort. xxvi. 345. 



TENASSERIM ; Moulmein, alt. 4-5000 ft., Lolb, Parish. 



Leaves 10-18 in., green above, paler beneath. Scape 1-fld. ; bract spathaceous 

 and ovary villous ; flowers 5-6 in. diam., glossy ; dorsal sepal green with brown- 

 purple base and white margins, keel hirsute ; petals hirsute towards the base, and 

 lip brownish yellow, mouth and staminode tawny yellow. C. Boxalli is a var. with 

 black spots on the dorsal sepal and more tessellated petals. Var., aurea (Gard. 

 Chron. 1883, i. 374) has a bright yellow-green dorsal sepal margined with white 

 and golden yellow petals and lip. 



7. C. hirsutissimum, Lindl. in Sot. Mag. t. 4990; leaves lorate 

 acute not tessellate, bract small and flower hirsute, dorsal sepal erect 

 orbicular-ovate obtuse, petals horizontal spathulate claw crisped or undu- 

 late, lip helmet- shaped, staminode quadrate angles rounded. Warner Sel. 

 Orchid, i. t. 15 ; Belg. Hortic. vii. 353, t. 61 ; III. Hort. iv., Misc. 67 ; Xen. 

 Orchid, ii. 107, 1. 132 ; Rev. Hortic. 1859, 182 ; Fl. des Serres, 1. 1430 ; Veitch 

 Man. 29, with Jig. 



KHASIA HILLS; on the Assam face, Simons. 



Leaves 9-12 in., green. Scape 12 in., green, hairs of bracts and flowers dark 

 purple ; flowers 4 in. diam. ; dorsal sepal green with a dull purplish spotted disk ; 

 petals nearly as broad as the dorsal sepal, violet-purple, the lower half with green 

 sides and midrib and copious dark spots, and hairs ; lip green flushed with dark 

 purple, minutely warted, mouth green within ; staminode green, base white. 



