HORTUS VEITCHII 



CYPEIPEDIUM (PAPHIOPEDILUM) AEGUS, Bchb.f. 



Echb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1873, p. 608 ; id. 1874, p. 710 ; PI. Mag. t. 220 ; Bot. Mag. 

 t. 6175 ; La Belg. Hort. xxxii. (1882), p. 241 ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. iv. p. 11. 



Discovered by Gustav Wallis in 1872 in Luzon, one of the Philippine 

 Islands, and introduced through him immediately afterwards, this 

 Cypripedium flowered for the first time in Europe in April 1873. 



It was named Argus by Professor Eeichenbach in allusion to the warty 

 eye-like spots on the petals, which form its most striking characteristic. 



CYPEIPEDIUM (PAPHIOPEDILUM) BAEBATUM, Lindl 



Lindl. Bot. Eeg. 1842, t. 17 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4234 ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. iv. p. 12, fig. 



Discovered by Cuming in 1840 on Mount Ophir, near Malacca in the 

 Malay Peninsula, and sent by him to Messrs. Loddiges of Hackney, with 

 whom it first flowered. 



Thomas Lobb collected it three years later in the same locality, and 

 from his importation the plant became generally distributed. 



CYPEIPEDIUM BOISSIEEIANUM, Echb. 



Syns. C. (Selenepedium) reticulatum, Rchb. 



Echb. in Gard. Chron. 1887, vol. i. p. 143, fig. ; id. vol. xviii. 1882, p. 620 ; Veitchs' 



Man. Orch. PI. pt. iv. p. 57. 



This first became known in British gardens through Walter Davis, who 

 found it, unknown to himself at the time, with Cypripedium caudatum, 

 near Muna in the Huanuco district of Peru in 1875-1876, in the same 

 locality in which the latter had been collected by William Lobb in 1847. 

 Presumably both species were found here by Euiz and Pavon sixty years 

 previously. 



CYPEIPEDIUM (PHEAGMOPEDILUM) CAEICINUM, Lindl. 



Syns. C. Pea/rcei, Batem. 



Lindl. in Paxt. PI. Gdn. 1850, vol. i. t. 9 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5466 ; PI. des Serres, torn. xvi. 

 t. 1648 ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. iv. p. 59, fig. 



Introduced in 1863 through Pearce and flowered for the first time in this 

 country at Chelsea in May of the following year. The specific name, from 

 carex, "a sedge," is in allusion to the sedge-like leaves. 



CYPEIPEDIUM (PHEAGMOPEDILUM) CAUDATUM, Lindl 



Lindl. in Paxt. PI. Gdn. 1850-1851, i. p. 37, t. 9; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. iv. p. 60, fig. ; 

 Orchid Eeview, 1895, vol. iii. p. 355, frontispiece (the variety Wallisii). 



Although previously known to science, Cypripedium caudatum remained 

 unknown to Horticulture till introduced by William Lobb in 1847, from 

 the Huanuco district of Peru, where thirty years afterwards it was 

 collected by Davis, who at the same time sent the variety Wallisii. Pearce 

 also sent a few plants to Chelsea in 1862, having met with them in the 

 Caupolica district, on the Andes of Ecuador, at 5,000-6,000 ft. elevation. 



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