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leaves are ligulate, tridentate at the apex, dark green. The 

 scape is covered with dark hairs, and bears a solitary medium- 

 sized flower. The dorsal sepal is broad, whitish green at the 

 base with violet nerves, marked, as in Maulei, with rows of 

 purple-coloured blotches ; the petals are port-wine colour 

 flushed with violet, yellowish with dark blotches towards the 

 base ; the lip also is port-wine colour. Raised by Mr. Seden. 

 * — Garden hybrid. 



C. pardinum, Bchb.f.—A beautiful Lady's Slipper of the 

 stemless tessellated set. The leaves are Hgulate, mottled 

 with various shades of green on the upper side, purplish 

 beneath. The flowers are rather large, and from two to 

 three are produced upon a spike. The dorsal sepal is white 

 striped with bright green ; the petals are oblong-ligulate, 

 acute, the lower portion yellowish green, spotted with pur- 

 plish black warts, the upper end of a coppery reddish purple, 

 the edges fringed with fine hairs ; and the lip pale yellow with 

 green veins. It bears some resemblance to C. venustum. — 

 Assam. 



Fig.— Floral Mag., 2 ser., t. 51, 



C. ParisMi, EcKh. f. — A very distinct and noble-looking 

 plant, with a habit of growth like that of C. phUippineyise. 

 The leaves are distichous, broadly loriform, leathery, the 

 apex obliquely obtuse, dark green above, paler below. The 

 flower spike, bearing from three to six large flowers, is stout, 

 often two feet high, and hairy. The flowers have ovate pale 

 green and greenish straw-coloured sepals, and drooping 

 twisted petals four to five inches long, green with marginal 

 purple hairy warts at the base, the upper two-thirds deep 

 purple with an obtuse ciliated apex ; lip green stained with 

 purple. It should be grown in the East Indian house. — 

 Moulmein. 



FlG.—Bot. Mag., t. 5791 ; Orchid Album, ii. t. 86 ; Gard. Chron., 1869, 

 814, with fig. 



C. Pearcei. — See Cypeipedium caricinum. 



C. pMlippinense, Rclib. f. — This grand species, which is 

 better known in gardens by its English synonym, C. loivigatiim, 

 was discovered by Mr. J. Gr. Veitch growing upon the roots of 

 Vanda Batemanni; it bloomed for the first time in this country 

 in the spring of 1865. The long thick distichous oblong- 

 ligulate or sword- shaped leaves have a polished surface. The 



