174 CXLVIII. ORCHIDE2B. (J. D. Hooker.) [Cypripedium 



MALAY PENINSULA ; Mt. Ophir, Lobb. 



leaves 5-7 in., pale or dark green with dull blotches. Scape 9-12 in., 1-fld. ; 

 flowers ciliolate, 4 in. dinm.; dorsal sepal white striped with green; petals longer 

 than the dorsal sepal, white veined with green j lip brownish purple, inflexed, lobes 

 crimson, warted. 



14. C* barbatum, Lindl. in Sot. Reg. 1841, Misc. 53 ; 1842, t. 17 ; 

 leaves oblong to linear-oblong acute tessellate, scape 1-2-fld. pubescent, 

 bract much snorter than the ovary, dorsal sepal broadly ovate or orbicular 

 acute or obtuse, petals longer linear-oblong spreading and decurved ciliate 

 and with a few black warts along the upper or both margins, lip helmet- 

 shaped mouth dilated, staminode hypocrepiform. Sot. Mag. 4234; Fl. 

 des Serres, iii. t. 190, and xviii. t. 1879 (var. grandiflorum) ; Selgique 

 Hortic. xxxiii. 96, t. 7 ; Warner Sel. Orchid. Ser. 3, t. 11 (var. Warneri) ; 

 Veitch Man. 12. Gard. GJiron. 1886, ii. 308, f. 63. C. purpuratum, Wight 

 Ic. t. 1760 (not of Lindl.}. C. Warnerianum, Reichb. f. in Gart. Zeit. 

 1883, fasc. ix. C. orbum, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1887, ii. 778. C. 

 Crossii, Selg. Sortie, xv. 227 ; Veitch Man. 12, with Jig. 



PENANG, Maingay. MALACCA; on Mt. Ophir, Griffith, &c. DISTEIB. W. 

 Siam. 



Leaves 4-8 in., pale green above with darker oblong spots. Scape 10-12 in. ; 

 flowers 2-3 in. diam. ; dorsal sepal folded in the middle, white with purple veins and 

 greenish base, lower connate sepals much narrower ; petals greenish brown towards 

 the base, purple towards the tip ; lip dark purple. Variable in the size and colour 

 of the flowers. Veitch retains two varieties, 1, Crossii, leaves paler with more 

 scattered deep green spots, under which are C. TParneriana and orba, and 2, 

 Obrieni, with leaves paler, spots smaller, petals and lip deeper coloured. C. orbum 

 is described as a hybrid by Reichenbach, but Veitch regards it as a synonym of var. 

 Crossii. 



15. C. Parish*!, Reichb. f. in flora, 1869, 322 ; in Gard. Chron. 

 1869, 814, witlifig. ; leaves ligulate 2-fid not tessellated, scape stout 4-7-fld., 

 bracts spathaceous, dorsal sepal suberect broadly elliptic-ovate with the 

 basal margins revolute, petals very long linear pendulous twisted margin 

 sparsely warted below, lip helmet-shaped, staminode obovate-oblong 

 obtusely 2-fid, base spurred. Sot. Mag. t. 5791 ; Williams Orchid. Alb. 

 ii. t. 86 ; De Puydt. Orchid. 188 ; Orchidopk. 1887, t. 91. III. Hort. 1875, t. 

 214; Gard. Chron. 1869, 814; Veitch Man. 41. Selenipedium Parishii, 

 Rev. Hort. 1885, 132. 



TENASSERIM ; at Moulmein, Parish. 



Leaves 9-15 by l|-2 in., glossy green. Scape 12-18 in., pale green, hairy ; 

 bracts and hirsute ovary green ; flowers 3-4 in. diam. ; dorsal sepal arched, keeled,pale 

 yellow green; petals 4-6 in. long, spreading, at length pendulous, basal half green 

 with pale undulate margin and a few bristly marginal tubercles, the other half dark 

 purple, tip obtuse pubescent; lip green or stained with purple, mouth green within; 

 staininode greenish yellow, margins white. 



112. APOSTASIA, Blume. 



Terrestrial herbs, with a short caudex and leafy rigid stems. Leaves 

 narrow, strongly nerved. Flowers small, in terminal or axillary simple or 

 panicled often decurved or deflexed spikes. Sepals, petals and lip all equal 

 and alike, free, spreading or recurved. Ovary very slender, 3-cel]ed. 

 Column short; anthers 2, at the sides of the rostellum, shortly stipitate, 

 narrow, erect, 2-celled, cells parallel ; staminode erect, behind the stigma, 



