Cypripedium."] CXLVIII. ORCHIDE^:.. (J. D. Hooker.) 173 



ASSAM (Low's and Sander's Collectors). 



Leaves 6-9 in., dark green, margins more or less waved, beneath purple-spotted 

 near the base. Scape 9-12 in., slender, pubescent ; bract narrow ; flowers about 

 3 in. diam.; dorsal sepal horizontal, sides at the base so stoutly refiexed as to 

 appear clawed, white base purple dotted on a green ground, rnidline purple ; petals 

 shorter than the lip, obtuse, yellow- or olive-green with a red median band and 

 spots ; lip brown, tinged with crimson ; staminode red, edged with white, base 

 contracted into auricle-like folds. 



d. Petals narrower than the dorsal sepal, very long in C. Parishii, 

 margins bearded or hirsute and warted. 



11. C. venustum, Wall, in Sot. Mag. t. 2129; Cat. 7023; leaves 

 elliptic- obloug or loriform tessellate, scape 1-2-fld., bracts half as long as 

 the ovary, dorsal sepal broadly ovate or cordate, petals linear-oblong 

 bearded sparsely warted, lip subcylindric reticulate, stamin ode semi-lunate. 

 Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 530 ; Hook. Exot. Flor. t. 35 ; Sot. Mag. t. 2129 ; 

 Sot. Reg. t. 788 ; Reichb. Fl. Exot. 100 ; Lodd. Sot. Cal. 585 ; Warner Sel. 

 Orchid, ii. t. 24; Veitch Man. 53. C. pardinum, Reichb. f. in Oard. 

 Chron. 1869, 554, and 1887, i. 382, fig. 76 (pardinum var.) ; Flor. Mag. 

 N. S. t. 51. 



TEOPICAL SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 3-4000 ft., J. D. H., Clarice. SILHET and 

 ASSAM, Wallich, Griffith, &c. 



Leaves 4-10 in., dark green, marbled with pale green above and dull purple 

 beneath. Scape 6-9 in., pubescent ; flowers 2-2 in. diam. ; dorsal sepal white with 

 dark stripes ; petals spreading, subspathulate, green and purplish, warts blackish ; 

 lip yellow green, flushed with pink, and with green reticulations, inflexed lobos 

 yellow nearly closing the mouth. The var. pardina has larger flowers, whiter 

 sepals, and larger and more scattered wart on the petals. 



12. C* Fairieanum, Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1857, 740 ; leaves linear- 

 oblong or loriform not tessellate, scape slende"r 1-fld., bracts half as long as 

 the glandular hairy ovary, dorsal sepal large erect suborbicular obtuse, 

 petals linear-lanceolate falcately upcurved margins crisped bearded and 

 with black tubercles, lip slipper-formed pubescent, staminode orbicular 

 with a deep notch and included spur in front. Sot. Mag. t. 5024; Fl. des 

 Serres, t. 1244; Xen. Orchid, ii. 108, t. 133; Orchid. Alb. ii. t. 70; Veitch 

 Man. 24, vrifhfig. 



ASSAM, Tronson (Ic.in Hort. Calcutt.). 



Leaves 4-6 in., acute, bright green. Scape 46 in., green ; bract green; ovary 

 purple ; flower 2^-3 in. diam. ; dorsal sepal greenish white with broad purple reticu- 

 lated nerves, ciliate, margin waved, keel hairy j petals yellow- or greenish-white 

 with purple nerves and margins ; lip green with purple veins and spots ; staminode 

 deeply notched and 3-fid in front, side lobes acute incurved, midlobe as long, straight 

 acute. 



13. C. superbiens, Reichb. f. in Sonpland. 1855, 227 ; in Algem. 

 Gartenzeit, 1856, 323; Xen. Orchid, ii. 9, t. 103; leaves elliptic-oblong 

 tessellate, scape 1-fld., bract much shorter than the ovary, dorsal sepal 

 orbicular-ovate acute, petals broadly linear deflexed fringed with black 

 hairs and warted, lip helmet-shaped, staminode suborbicular notched in 

 front, base 2-lobed. Gartenfl. 1863, 49 ; Warner Sel. Orchid, ii. t. 12 ; Fl. 

 des' Serres, t. 1996 ; Veitch Man. 51, with Jig. ; Gard. Chron. 1886, ii. 405, 

 f. 83, 84. C. Veitchianum, III Hort. xii. t. 429 ; De Puydt, Les Orchid, 

 frontisp. p. 267 ; Rev. Hortic. 1871, 595, Jiff. 78, 79. C. barbatum Veitchii, 

 FL des Serres, t. 1453. C. barbatum superbum, Selg. Hortic. 1883, 97. 



